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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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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

Handling course requests


The site administrator can enable course requests. When this is enabled, any logged-in user can request a course. The site administrator, manager, and course creator can then create the requested course.

Enabling course requests

The site administrator must enable course requests while logged in as a site administrator. There are a few steps, and they are very intuitive:

  1. While logged in as the administrator, select Administration | Site administration | Courses | Course request.
  2. Click to place a checkmark in the field labeled Enable course requests.
  3. Other settings on this page will enable the users to select a category for the course that they select.
  4. For the Course request notification field, select everyone you want to be notified when someone requests a course. If you want to select several users, use control-click to select them all.
  5. Save your changes.

Getting notified about course requests

By default, when someone requests a new course, Moodle will send an email to the...