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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how to use Moodle's Quiz module to create self-assessment and learning experiences. Some of the features we explored are:

  • Opening and closing quizzes at predetermined times

  • Setting up the Gradebook

  • Feedback for quizzes, questions, and individual responses to questions

  • Timed quizzes

  • Using assessment for motivation and engagement

  • Setting up Badges that are issued upon successful completion of the assessment

There are several other features that you can use to make quizzes a good learning experience. For example, you can use the settings for Attempts allowed and Each attempt builds on the last to enable students to try a quiz several times. After each attempt, the student can retain the correct answers and work at the wrong answers. You can use Adaptive mode to create questions that allow multiple attempts immediately after the student has entered an answer and change their feedback according to the student's answer. I encourage you to explore these, and other...