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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 glossary entries

Selecting a Glossary activity from the course menu displays the glossary's introductory page. From this page, you can edit and browse the glossary.

The following screenshot shows the Add a new entry button, which appears under every tab in the glossary:

Figure 9.16 – The Add a new entry button allows you to create another glossary entry

Create new Glossary categories by navigating to the Browse by category page and then clicking on the Add a new entry button. This button appears under each of the tabs when you browse the glossary, so it's always available.

On this page, Concept is the term that you will add to the glossary. Keyword(s) are synonyms that are equivalent to a See also section in an index or dictionary. These terms will link to the same definition as the concept.

Note that you can add a picture or media file to Description using the icons in the toolbar:

You can also upload these kinds of files...