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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever. This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book. Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities. Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course

We've discussed the general appearance of your course, but there are a few additional items that will allow you to customize the appearance of your course. As you make changes, you may wish to keep accessibility in mind and use the UDL guidelines.

Fonts

Moodle gives you many options for design, and you may notice that web-editing boxes pop up almost every time you add content. While it's very tempting to use a wide array of colors, fonts, and symbols, be sure to keep it simple. The following are a few key points:

  • Choose fonts carefully and use them consistently.
  • Use a sans serif font, such as Arial or Helvetica. They are easier for people with impaired...