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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

Summary

Activities are very important in the Moodle framework because they allow learners to demonstrate competency, as well as staying engaged and motivated. They also allow course designers to connect learning outcomes to the overall competency frameworks that may be required by governing bodies.

In Moodle 4.0, the activities have been streamlined so that there are not as many, but many have increased their functionality to be even more collaborative and interactive to keep learners engaged and motivated. Moodle 4.0 has made it easier for learners to see where they are in a course by making enhancements to the Assignment activity, as well as others, to indicate whether an activity has been completed, and whether or not the minimum passing score has been achieved.

Moodle's Assignment and Lesson activities allow you to create course material that learners can interact with. This interaction is more engaging, and usually more effective, than courses consisting of static...