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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 site level, you will need to configure elements at the course level and make sure that they are ideal for instructor-led, cohort-based courses. So, go to the Course administration menu in the ADMINISTRATION block.

Course settings

Let's take a look at the course settings. The following are the ideal settings:

  1. In the ADMINISTRATION block, go to Course administration.
  2. Click on Edit settings.

  1. In the Course format section, select the Topics format menu from the drop-down menu in the Format field, and then, add at least two additional topics to the number of sections (in addition to those that will be units in your course). As in the case of an independent...