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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

Chapter 4: Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

Living in a world where synchronous web conference delivery is a major part of content delivery means that your on-demand resources and activities need to be easily accessed, clearly mapped to course objectives, and incorporated into a web conference if needed. Further, as you develop your courses and curriculum in Moodle, it is important to plan well so that there is a level of consistency in an organization and presentation. Not only will you standardize your curriculum – you will also standardize your courses. Although it's easy to think that the flashiest content or assessment should be showcased, the reality is that you should keep your attention focused on the course learning objectives. All your content and assessments should map directly to the learning objectives. This chapter does not focus on specific resources or activities; that content is covered in later chapters. Our goal for this chapter...