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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

Creating courses

As stated earlier, every course belongs to a category. Don't worry if you mistakenly put a course into the wrong category.

Creating a course and filling it with content are two different functions. In this section, we will talk about creating a blank course, with no content. In the later chapters, we will learn how to add material to a course.

To create a course, a user must have the site-wide role of the site administrator or manager. To add material to a course, a user must be a site administrator, course creator, manager, or teacher (usually, the teacher adds material). The following tables show what the different roles can do.

Moodle site roles:

Figure 3.15 – Moodle site roles

Moodle course roles:

Figure 3.16 – Moodle course roles

In this section, we have learned about site-wide roles and course-specific roles. Next, we will look at creating a new blank course.

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