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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

A locally hosted installation

We recommend a cloud-based Moodle installation for most of you because we assume that your primary concern will be to develop and administer online courses that your students, teachers, and administrators will be able to develop and use effectively, even in situations where you have very little lead time.

Nevertheless, there may be situations where you need to install Moodle locally because you would like to save monthly hosting fees, develop a custom solution, or use the installation to experiment.

In some cases, you may wish to install Moodle on a standalone machine. If that is the case, it is recommended that you visit "one-click" installers for Windows and macOS. Keep in mind that they are not suitable for production servers.

The complete install packages that you may wish to use can be found at Moodle.org's Windows download page: https://download.moodle.org/windows/. Each is designed for a standalone computer, and they use...