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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

Configuring where a block appears

You can configure a block to appear on the course's home page and all the resource and activity pages in the course. You can also configure a block to appear on all your courses. Additionally, you can create a block that contains categories of courses and lists the individual courses within those categories.

To configure where a block appears, click on the gear icon. In this case, we are configuring where to put the Calendar block:

Figure 12.6 – Dropdown menu for managing a block

To move the blocks to the right-hand side of the screen and rearrange them, click on the crossed terminating arrows, hold down with your mouse, and move the selection around:

Figure 12.7 – To move the blocks, click on the cross, hold, and move

For example, in the following screenshot, the user is configuring the Upcoming events block in the The Impressionists course:

Figure 12.8...