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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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About the Author
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Preface

Uses of Chat


You may wonder why use Moodle's Chat when Skype, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and other large services offer Internet telephony and chat capability, even with video and file transfer abilities.

The answer is simple. By using Moodle's Chatroom, you have control of the tools and the transcript and you're able to automatically contact the individuals who are registered in your course. Moodle's Chatroom is connected with your courses and so only people who have registered for your course can enter. It is much easier to keep up with assessment and to assign grades for Chat participation with Moodle's convenient integration.

In this chapter, we explore questions such as What  is  Chat  good  for? And  How  can  achieve  success  in  an  online  Chat? As Moodle's Chat function is similar to most other chat software, the answers to these questions apply to more than just Moodle.

Test preparation and online study groups

For some students, an online class may seem very isolated...