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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

Cohorts

In this section, we'll look at how to create and use cohorts. You can perform many operations with cohorts in bulk, affecting many students at once. In general, cohorts consist of students who matriculate at the same time, and then take all their classes together, culminating in graduating together. For example, as in the case in the previous section, 20 students enter a master's degree program at the same time. They take three courses per term, and they do so at the same time. The students would interact with each other in each course, albeit in different ways. Over time, they would develop trust and they would learn from each other.

Creating a cohort

To create a cohort, perform the following steps:

  1. From the main menu, select Site administration | Users | Accounts | Cohorts.
  2. On the Cohorts page, click on the Add button. The Add new cohort page will be displayed:

Figure 11.1 – Adding a new cohort

  1. Enter a name...