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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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Preface

Keys to successful assessment


The following questions have to be asked in order to determine the key to a successful assessment: How can you determine how and where students are learning? What are the best measures and how can you use them?

In an online course, you have many opportunities to create assessments and mini-assessments that can help students develop a sense of confidence. They will also become more aware of what they are learning and how their knowledge is growing over time.

Here are a few guidelines for creating effective assessments and for deciding how and where to offer them within Moodle:

  • Assessments must be connected in an integral way with the course goals and standards.

  • Assessments must be aligned with all the instructional content and activities so that the information provided directly relates to the desired learning outcomes.

  • Assessments must ask students to perform tasks that are on the same level as the learning objectives. For example, if a learning objective involves...