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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

A look at the choice activity


Before we discuss some of the uses of a choice activity, let's look at a choice from both the students' and teachers' point of view.

Students' point of view

From the students' point of view, a choice activity looks like this:

Note

Note that at the bottom of the window, the student can see how many other students have chosen a response. There is also a limit on the number of students who can choose each response.

Teachers' point of view

Before we discuss some of the uses of a choice activity, let's consider the settings available on the Editing Choice page. We will then see how we can make creative use of these capabilities. Note that you can choose whether to allow one or more choices, and this affects the shape of the radio buttons, which are either round or square.

Number of choices

When you first use the Editing Choice page, Moodle gives you space for seven responses, and you can add up to three more:

If you have used up all the choices and need more, you need...