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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

Linking to collaboration platforms (Functionality booster)

Forums are interactive and often collaborative activities, and as such, they can encourage students to learn from each other. Sometimes, it is useful to have students collaborate on a single document. Students can collaborate in a shared document. In a Moodle Forum, having a collaborative document can encourage people to add content. It's not granularly peer-reviewed and assessed as in a Moodle Workshop, nor is it intended to be a wiki. It's simply to encourage engagement. It may seem complicated, but it's quite simple, especially if your school or organization uses Microsoft Office 365 products and OneDrive, or if students have a Google account that gives them access to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and more. They can also use other collaborative spaces, such as Dropbox. For more complex tasks, students may collaborate in a spreadsheet that has a timeline and critical path. Some organizations use project management...