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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

Adding questions to a quiz

Once you've selected the quiz from your course home page, you can add questions to the question bank that is used when constructing the quiz. First, go to Administration | Quiz administration | Edit quiz. On the Editing quiz page, you can see the Add a question... button:

Figure 7.22 – Adding questions to a quiz

Before we look at the detailed instructions to create new questions, let's look at the Question bank contents button. Also, on the Quiz administration menu, you can see the options for Question bank; these options enable you to work with the question bank.

Functionality Booster

An essay is a question type in Moodle. Moodle 4.0 incorporates a word count feature for Essay questions, which allows you to set minimum and maximum word counts for answers. When the minimum word count has not been satisfied, a message will automatically appear and alert the learner.

Multiple-choice questions in the question...