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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

Using labels to further organize your course

The main tools for organizing a course in Moodle are sections and labels. In this section, we'll learn how to use them and how to move material around on the course page.

Naming your topics

In a course that uses the topics format, your topics are automatically named and numbered, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.25 – Adding a label to help further indicate what the topic is about

You can move the label so that it appears immediately under the topic:

Figure 5.26 – Moving the label's position

You may wish to add graphics for engagement to the label. You can do so by opening the label and modifying it. In this case, I clicked on the Insert media icon, then clicked on Repositories. I selected Wikimedia from the File picker window and then entered geothermal energy New Zealand as my search term. Success! I have quite a few to choose from:

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