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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

Installing Standard Moodle, enhancing it with plugins, and adding the Moodle app

It is not within the scope of this book to give you detailed instructions on how to install and run Moodle on your own server. However, this section will show you where to go to get the specific instructions and also point out that there are options. You can find all of them on the Moodle downloads page at https://download.moodle.org/. Standard Moodle is the base version of Moodle. To be able to add functionality, such as a calendar, you'll need to enhance it with plugins.

Standard Moodle

We'll begin with Standard Moodle. To get started, you will need a web server such as Apache and a database such as MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL. You'll need to configure PHP because Moodle requires a number of PHP extensions.

For specific installation instructions, please visit Moodle downloads at https://download.moodle.org/.

The latest release at the time of writing this book is Moodle...