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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

Developing feedback modules

The Feedback activity allows you to create surveys for your learners. The Feedback activity is often confused with the Survey activity. In a Survey activity, you must choose from several pre-made surveys; you cannot build surveys. Also, do not confuse this with the questionnaire module. A questionnaire is an add-on, while Feedback comes as standard with Moodle.

Feedback isn't just for learners

Of course, you can use a Feedback activity to survey your learners. You can also use it to do the following:

  • Survey the employees in your workplace.
  • Collect data from people who have agreed to be research subjects.
  • Conduct public opinion surveys of the visitors to your site.

The Feedback activity allows you to create different kinds of questions: multiple choice, dropdown, short answer, and more. You can share the results of feedback with the learners or keep them confidential.

Creating a Feedback activity

Let's imagine...