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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

Chapter 12: Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

Blocks add functionality to your site or course and they can be placed in many different locations on the page to help focus attention on content and provide useful information, such as assignment due dates on a calendar, course completion status, course overview, and more. Blocks are very flexible and have a wide array of uses. They are often used to build the student's self-confidence by helping them keep on track and manage their time effectively. This chapter will describe many of Moodle's blocks, help you decide which ones will meet your goals, and tell you how to implement them.

After completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Describe blocks.
  • Explain their functionality.
  • Configure blocks for your Moodle pages.
  • Customize blocks for your courses in Moodle.

We will begin this chapter by describing what a block is and discussing how they are used. Afer that, we will look...