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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

Choice


Moodle's Choice is the simplest type of activity. In a choice activity, you create one question and specify a choice of responses. You can use Choice to do any of these:

  • Take a quick poll
  • Ask students to choose sides in a debate
  • Confirm the students' understanding of an agreement
  • Gather consent
  • Allow students to choose a subject for an essay or project

Before we look at how to accomplish this, let's look at the Choice activity from the student's point of view and then explore the settings available to the teacher while creating a Choice.

The student's point of view

From the student's point of view, a choice activity looks like this:

Note a few things about this choice activity:

  • The student can see how many other students have chosen a response
  • There is a limit on the number of students who can choose each response
  • The student can remove their choice and submit again

These are options that you can set for the activity. The teacher also could have hidden other students' responses, had no limit for...