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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

Managing students within groups

In this section, we will learn how to manage students within groups. A group is a collection of students on a course. Outside of a course, a group has no meaning.

Groups are useful when you want to separate students who are studying the same course. For example, if your organization is using the same course for several different classes or groups, you can use the group feature to separate students so that each group can only see their peers on the course. For example, each month, you can create a new group for employees hired that month. Then, you can monitor and mentor them together.

Groups are excellent for course projects and for conducting peer reviews, too.

After you have run a group of people through a course, you might want to reuse this course for another group. You can use the group feature to separate groups so that the current group doesn't see the work that was done by the previous group. This will be like a new course for the...