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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

The syllabus


Including a link to the course syllabus from Topic 0 is almost obvious. We suggest two refinements to your syllabus.

Printer-friendly for letter and A4 sizes

First, make the syllabus printer-friendly. Even though we live in the computer age, many people still prefer to have a hardcopy of their schedules and tasks. Providing the syllabus in PDF format makes it easier for students to generate a printout.

If you have students in both North America and the rest of the world, you will want the printout to be formatted so that it prints well on both Letter and A4-sized paper. Letter-sized paper is shorter than A4, at 11 inches (279.4 mm). A4-sized paper is narrower than Letter, at 8.27 inches (210 mm). Ensure that content doesn't go outside the printable area of the paper, by using margins of 0.5 inches to keep the material inside that area. This will take care of the top, left, and right margins for students who are using both A4 and Letter paper.

As A4 is 0.7 inches (18 mm) longer than...