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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 an activity

Adding one activity is the same as adding any other activity, so let's go through this now. We'll address what all the activities have in common in this section as well.

Let's consider a course called Dog Grooming for Everyone. Once we've created the course and identified its topics, we can add activities.

As always, let's start by turning on Edit mode in the top right-hand corner:

Figure 6.5 – Turning on Edit mode

Now, let's take a look at the topics. Click on Add an activity or resource and then select one from the menu:

Figure 6.6 – Modifying the topics to customize their content

When you click on Add an activity or resource, the respective menu will pop up. I've selected Activities so that I only see activities. If you forget what each activity is about, you can click the little i icon for more information. Note that it only provides information and does...