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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)

Course-level configuration

Now that you've configured the course at the site level, you will need to configure the elements at the course level and make sure that they are ideal for self-paced independent study. So, go to the Course administration menu.

Course settings

Let's take a look at the course settings. We'll want to make sure that the course is arranged in an "any time / any place / any pace" way. The following are the ideal course settings:

  1. Click on your course, go to the gear box in the upper right-hand corner.
  2. Click on Edit settings.
  3. Select the Topics Format from the pull-down Course Format menu. As you do so, add at least two more topics (in addition to those that will be units in your...