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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

Chapter 13: Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, and Guides

Some of the most useful new features of Moodle 4.0 have to do with automatically generating progress reports that help students as well as teachers. For example, there is a new activity completion indicator that tracks the student's progress on their assigned tasks in each course. Similarly, the Dashboard has an updated Timeline block and a highly functional Calendar block that bring all the course deadlines together on one page.

For administrators, there are performance reports that have to do with the functioning of Moodle. This new feature of Moodle can be found by accessing the Site Administration menu, and following this path: Site administration > Reports > Report builder > Custom reports. Thus, the administrator can build custom reports that are useful for different constituencies within the organization, ranging from students, teachers, managers, and administrators.

For teachers, tracking progress...