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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 2: Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site

In today's world of cloud computing, it is most efficient and economical for organizations to opt into a cloud-based Moodle installation provided by a Moodle partner or Moodlecloud.com. Your students will be accessing Moodle from an array of different devices, and Moodle 4.0's brand-new default theme, which is based on Boost, is completely responsive, with new Site home options and an easy-to-follow Dashboard. The result is a user experience that helps you stay organized, never miss a deadline, and always know how to get back to the last pages you visited.

In this chapter, we will focus on getting Moodle up and running for your organization, with an emphasis on cloud-based Moodle. We will help you create the user experience that you want by choosing the right settings for your Moodle installation. By configuring your site to enhance the user experience, you'll enhance the user's learning experience as well...