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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

Summary

Moodle 4.0 makes it easier for students, teachers, and administrators to navigate the platform by adding new navigation options and placing an activity history on the side of the Dashboard. Individuals and organizations that want to install a Standard version on their own servers can still do so, and they can enhance the global functionality with plugins. We also discussed Moodle Mobile, which is an app for Android users that enables them to access and use Moodle even when offline. In this chapter, we learned how to get started with Moodle, beginning with configuration and then selecting the available roles for users. We discussed the Dashboard's new features and also how Moodle 4.0 has enhanced the user experience. We covered the settings that, from experience, you are most likely to change. Many of these settings affect the behavior of the entire site. You don't need to get these choices perfect the first time because you can return to these settings and edit them...