Book Image

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

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide Ian Wild

ISBN: 978-1-78646-711-9

  • Work with the different types of custom modules that can be written for Moodle 3.x
  • Understand how to author custom modules so they conform to the agreed Moodle 3.x development guidelines
  • Get familiar with the Moodle 3.x architecture—its internal and external APIs
  • Customize Moodle 3.x so it can integrate seamlessly with third-party applications of any kind
  • Build a new course format to specify the layout of a course
  • Implement third-party graphics libraries in your plugins
  • Build plugins that can be themed easily
  • Provide custom APIs that will provide the means to automate Moodle 3 in real time

Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Eduonix Learning Solutions

ISBN: 978-1-78728-664-1

  • Simple and advanced themes – covers basic syntax and files along with archives and search pages
  • Photo Gallery – add simple animation and use the W3.CSS framework to design a photo gallery theme
  • Wordstrap – incorporate Twitter Bootstrap into the theme and use the WP_NavWalker Class
  • E-commerce Theme – build an e-commerce theme using the Foundation framework