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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

Course activities enable students to interact with the instructor, the learning system, or each other. They also allow students to develop confidence by being rewarded with a badge or certificate when they complete the activities. Above all, course activities should connect to the learning objectives of the course and correspond to the appropriate level of knowledge in the cognitive domain, as indicated in Bloom's Taxonomy, which we reviewed in an earlier chapter. Your instructional strategy will be very effective if you ensure that every step of your course planning integrates the learning objectives with the appropriate level of content and activities and that each step has measurable outcomes.

In this chapter, you will learn about Moodle's assignments and how to select them appropriately to achieve optimal outcomes. Note that Moodle doesn't categorize activities into static, interactive, and social as we do in this book. We...