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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

In this chapter, we learned how to start the process of building courses. We started by identifying how to work with categories and then configure courses in several different ways.

Moodle 4.0 includes a number of enhancements to give administrators more flexibility in how to display information in the Dashboard and on the Site home page, which greatly enhances the UX. The new options and flexibility mean that an administrator has more options, which in turn means more complexity in configuring the site and courses.

In this chapter, we covered how to customize the appearance of your courses so that it matches the needs of our learners and use Moodle as a powerful tool for creating the documentation necessary for accreditation reviews.

We also discussed the importance of including links to web conferencing in the case of synchronous and hybrid synchronous/asynchronous courses.

In general, make your best guesses when you first create a course, and don't let...