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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

Enrolling teachers and students

Who will teach your course? Also, how will students be enrolled? The settings that you choose for your course enrollment will determine that. In this section, will learn how to enroll teachers and students in Moodle.

Assigning teachers

After a site administrator, manager, or a course creator has created a blank course, they can assign a teacher to build the course.

To assign a teacher to a course, carry out these steps:

  1. Enter the course as an administrator or manager.
  2. From within the course, select My Courses | Participants | Enrolled users.
  3. In the upper-left corner of the page, click on the Enrol users button. The Enrolled users window is displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.33 – Enrolling users

  1. To find a user, enter any part of the user's name into the search field and then press Enter or Return on your keyboard:

Figure 3.34 – Finding enrolled...