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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

Setting the availability of a resource or an activity


Every resource or activity that you add will have Common module settings. If conditional access and/or completion tracking is enabled for the site, Restrict access settings are also added. As each item comes with these settings, we'll go through them once in the following sections.

Using the visibility setting to show or hide a resource

Under Common module settings, the Visiblesetting determines whether this resource or activity is visible to students, as shown:

Teachers and site administrators can always see the item. Setting this to Hide will hide the item from the students. Teachers can hide some resources and activities at the beginning of a course and reveal them as the course progresses. Alternatively, you can keep an item hidden while you're developing it and reveal it only when it's complete.

Using the ID number to include a resource in the grade book

The ID numberfield enables you to add an identifying number to a resource. Remember...