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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
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Self-generating certificates upon successful completion of assessment activities


The Certificate plugin is a very useful program that you can configure so that it issues a PDF certificate when the learner completes with a passing score (which you select) for the activities that you've selected.

This plugin allows you to customize the PDF to a certain degree and to select from four pre-designed options. You may include the name of the course, the date, and also the name of the organization awarding the certificate.

You can download the plugin from this site: https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_certificate .

If you are using Moodle 3.0 or higher, you can use this link: https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/9988/mod_certificate_moodle30_2015111601.zip .

Setting up the Gradebook

To get started with setting up your Gradebook, go to the course Administration navigation menu. Click on Grade administration.

Then, click Gradebook setup. This is under User report and then under Setup. You'll see the different...