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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
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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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Preface

Building the course design document


As you start to configure your course, please think of this course as a template and a guide for the courses you'll use in the future. By developing a template, you can start to build a course design document. You will be surprised by how easily you can develop a unique framework that has a particular look and feel, that is, your own brand.

Start by adding a course from the Course Administration menu and configuring it so that it can be modified for the future courses in your program, certificate, or degree:

As you start to develop the courses, plan well so that the sequences, course names, course numbers, and descriptions are consistent and fit within a series of courses.

A good way to start is to think of the configuration of your course and the flow. How do you want your students to move through the course? How do you want your students to interact with you and their fellow students? The best way to start is to begin with the homepage.

By default...