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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 pages

Moodle enables you to compose a web page and add it to your course. The page that you add will be created and stored on your Moodle site. Be very strategic when adding Moodle pages. If you are not careful, you'll create confusion. Here are the best ways to use pages:

  • Add content that ties to the course outline: You may have short narratives or an entire chapter. Creating pages rather than a file allows you to also include links and for the navigation to flow very smoothly so that your students stay within Moodle at all times.
  • Add portal pages with introductions, plus links, files, and books: You may wish to have a long introduction to your content for a specific unit or chapter of your course. You can create a page, add your introduction (including graphics and text), and then have an organized set of links, files, folders, and even books.

When you add a page to your course, Moodle displays a text editor. Using this editor, you can put almost anything...