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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

Building question banks

Let's build a question bank. Building the quiz is a three-step process. First, create a quiz. Second, create questions in the question bank. Third, add questions to the quiz. You can create the questions first, but it is often best to storyboard your course and list the Quiz activities first.

Moodle 4.0 makes it easier to access question bank global configurations by accessing them through plugins. There are three question-related areas: Question bank plugins, Question behaviors, and Question types. You can enable site-wide access, and also configure the behaviors across the site by making changes on the Plugins page.

A question bank in Moodle is a collection of questions that you can organize in different ways in a database so that you can use them in the future. You'll use your questions in different "contexts" – some will be used across the entire system. Others would be used in all quizzes in a course category. Others would...