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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

Setting up lessons

A lesson is a complex and powerful type of activity. Essentially, a lesson is a series of web pages that presents information and questions. Lessons take a bit of time to set up, but they are well worth the investment because they incorporate adaptive learning and can direct learners to remedial activities if they do not demonstrate mastery. It will advance them to other content and activities if they complete an activity. Lessons are useful in hybrid courses that incorporate synchronous tutoring or even face-to-face delivery because they can flag where learners may need more help.

Before you decide to use a lesson, familiarize yourself with its pros and cons.

A Moodle lesson can be a powerful combination of instruction and assessment. Lesson activities offer the flexibility of a web page, the interactivity of a quiz, and branching capabilities. The key is to plan your lesson and storyboard the sequence. For example, for our course, Dog Grooming for Everyone...