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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

Student views of performance and progress

As a student, Moodle 4.0 gives you a chance to see where you are in your courses, as well as see "at-a-glance" reports of how your performance stacks up against others in the course.

First, there is the streamlined new Course Index, which is a column on the left-hand side of the screen if you're using a tablet or laptop. So, on the left-hand side of the screen on your tablet/laptop, you'll see the Course Index, which contains various topics (modules) and activities. In the center, you will see the navigation bar, which provides course information, announcements, links to resources and activities, and more. On the right-hand side are blocks that track activity, display performance in your course, and give you a link to collaborative activities if your teacher or administrator has permitted you to see them:

Figure 13.1 – View of the Course Index on the left-hand column

The redesigned Calendar...