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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

Organizing your course


The main tools for organizing a course in Moodle are sections and labels. In this section, we'll look at how to use them and how to move material around on the course page.

Name your topics

In a course that uses the topics format, your topics are automatically named and numbered, like this:

This works well if you want your topics to be automatically numbered. If you rearrange the topics, the numbering will automatically be updated.

Instead of using the default topic numbering, you might want to name your topics and add a description to them, as follows:

To add a name and description to a Topic, do as follows:

  1. Log in to your course as a teacher or a site administrator.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the page, if you see a button that reads Turn editing on, click on the button. If it readsTurn editing off, you do not need to click on this button.
  3. Next to the topic's number, click on the Edit summary button:
  1. The Summary page for your Topic is displayed. You must uncheck the checkbox...