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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

Adding and running forums

Discussion boards, also known as forums, are at the heart of Moodle, and they provide you with a way to organize and launch group projects and investigations, add student interaction, provide peer review, share information, and disseminate course content. You can also use forums to provide links to assessments. Many instructors use forums as the primary method for organizing content in the course. For example, in an eight-module course, you can lead each week with a forum. In the forum's description, you can include links to the readings and multimedia (audio, images, and videos). Then, you can ask students questions to respond to them in the forum.

We can get started by creating a Forum activity. After you select Forum from the activity menu, you'll be asked to give the forum a name.

To add the Forum activity, we can follow the same procedure as in the other activities. Click on Add an activity or resource and then select the Forum icon...