What this book covers
Chapter 1, A Guided Tour of Moodle, explains what Moodle can do and what kind of user experience your students and teachers will have when using Moodle. You will also learn about the Moodle philosophy and how it shapes the user experience. With this information, you'll be ready to decide how to make the best use of Moodle's many features and plan your online learning site.
Chapter 2, Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site, shows you how to get Moodle up and running for your organization, with an emphasis on cloud-based Moodle. We will help you create the user experience that you want by choosing the right settings for your Moodle installation. By configuring your site to enhance the user experience, you'll enhance their learning experience as well.
Chapter 3, Creating Categories and Courses, explains how to how to create the course, choose the best format for your course considering your course objectives, and enroll students into the course. In addition, we will ensure that the course is well designed and that you are continuously mindful of how learning will take place.
Chapter 4, Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access, provides an overview of the content that goes into your course and explains how to manage it on the course level.
Chapter 5, Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course, shows you how to identify the appropriate resources to add and achieve the course learning objectives, manage the resources, and then use them effectively.
Chapter 6, Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice, explains how to build course content that provides instructional material while also motivating the learner with engagers and by giving feedback and indicating where they are on the path to the successful achievement of their learning outcomes.
Chapter 7, Evaluating Students with Quizzes, examines Moodle's powerful solution that allows well-designed and well-placed quizzes, and the ability to tie the quizzes in with mastery learning, competency frameworks, certificates, and badges.
Chapter 8, Getting Social with Chats and Forums, teaches you how to add Moodle's communication activities to a course and how to make the best use of them. It includes chats, forums, and other forms of social media.
Chapter 9, Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries, explains how to develop effective collaborative activities that help achieve learning objectives by adding wikis and glossaries to your course.
Chapter 10, Running a Workshop, shows you how to create a collaborative workshop in Moodle that can include student peer reviews at the heart of the interaction.
Chapter 11, Groups and Cohorts, looks at definitions of groups and cohorts in terms of how they relate to e-learners. We will then discuss the best time and the best way to organize students into groups and cohorts to achieve course learning objectives.
Chapter 12, Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks, describes many of Moodle's blocks, helps you decide which ones will meet your goals, and tells you how to implement them.
Chapter 13, Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, Guides, covers how to generate and use the many logs, reports, and guides available in Moodle 4.0.