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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

Understanding assignments in Moodle

If you would like your learner to demonstrate that they have achieved mastery of a skill set or a body of knowledge, you will need to develop a way of assessing it. One good approach is to develop an assignment. The Assignment activity in Moodle gives you space to check the learner's knowledge using a quiz, allow the learner to practice until they achieve the passing score, and show they have achieved the learning objective.

Adding an assignment

Let's start by creating an assignment. We can do that by clicking Adding an assignment and then selecting Assignment from the menu that includes the full list of Moodle activities. In this case, we will be adding the assignment to the Dog Grooming for Everyone course. We will name the assignment Review of Dog Grooming Tools.

This is where you can add the description of the assignment and also the assignment's instructions. Notice that the verb aligns with Bloom's Taxonomy and...