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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever. This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book. Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities. Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Customizing your course page

Let's return to your course's home page, which is not the same as your front page or portal. Instead, we're focusing on developing the course itself.

Are there a few items that we need to include that we were not able to customize when we edited the course page? This section discusses a few items you may wish to include.

The Calendar block

Including a calendar which demarcates course events can help your students stay on track. To add a calendar, you will first add a Calendar block as shown in the following steps:

  1. Click on the Turn editing on button.
  2. In the Add a block menu, click on the Add... option.
  3. Click on Calendar in the drop-down menu. A Calendar block will appear on the...