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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

Feedback


The feedback module enables you to create surveys for your students. Do not confuse this with the survey activity. In survey, you must choose from several pre-made surveys; you cannot build your own surveys. Also, do not confuse this with the questionnaire module. A questionnaire is an add-on, while feedback comes as standard with Moodle.

The feedback module needs to be enabled by the site administrator under Site administration | Plugins | Activity modules | Manage activities.

Feedback isn't just for students

Of course, you can use a Feedback activity to survey your students. You can also use it for the following:

  • Conducting a survey of the employees in your workplace
  • Collecting data from people who have agreed to be research subjects
  • Conducting public opinion surveys of the visitors to your site

The feedback activity enables you to create different kinds of questions: multiple choice, dropdown, short answer, and more. You can share the results of a feedback with the students or keep...