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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Enrolling teachers and students


Who will teach your course? Also, how will students be enrolled? The settings that you choose for your course enrollment will determine that.

Assigning teachers

After a site administrator, manager, or a course creator has created a blank course, they can assign a teacher to build the course.

The teacher needs an account on your site. If you need to manually create the teacher's account, refer to the Creating test accounts section in Chapter 3, Configuring Your Site.

To assign a teacher to a course, carry out these steps:

  1. Enter the course as administrator or manager.
  2. From within the course, select Course administration | Users | Enrolled users.
  3. In the upper-right corner of the page, click on the Enrol users button. The Enrol users window is displayed as in the following screenshot:

  1. To find a user, enter any part of the user's name into the Search field and then press Enter or return on your keyboard:
  1. From the Assign roles drop-down list, select Teacher.
  2. Next to the user...