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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

Students' consent


You can use a choice activity to confirm the students' understanding of an agreement or to record their consent. For example, if you're teaching a film-making class and you anticipate entering the resulting film into student competitions, you can use a choice to record the students' consent to have their work submitted to the competition or you can write the course syllabus and schedule as the text of the choice, and have the student confirm that he/she has read the syllabus. In this case, you might want the choice to have only one response, indicating the student's agreement. If you have a response indicating the student's disagreement, enable them to change their response and decide how you will handle the disagreement.

You can also use a choice to survey the class about their readiness to proceed with an activity. This is especially useful if the class needs to coordinate their efforts. For example, if you're using one of Moodle's Workshop activities, you can have students...