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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

Adding links

To add a link to a resource on the web, follow these steps:

  1. In the topic or the week where you want to add the resource, click Add an activity or resource. If you're not sure where you want to add the link, just make your best guess. You can move it around the course later.
  2. The Add an activity or resource dialog box will be displayed. Click on the radio button next to URL.
  3. Click on the Add button.
  4. Enter a Name and Description for the link. To learn more about how the name and description affect the learner experience, please refer to Chapter 4, Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access.
  5. In the External URL field, enter the web address for this link.
  6. Under Appearance, from the Display drop-down menu, select the method that you want Moodle to use when displaying the linked page – that is, Embed, Open, or In pop-up. Choosing Automatic will make Moodle choose the best method for displaying the linked page.

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