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Moodle for Beginners [Video]

By : Silvina P. Hillar
Book Image

Moodle for Beginners [Video]

By: Silvina P. Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is one of the most popular open source platforms to create, manage, and organize content for courses.</p> <p>This course shows you how to create both activities and resources, creating them in a Moodle course and also using external tools. We’ll enhance our Moodle course by creating external websites, blogs, videos, and channels in order to create a dynamic course. Furthermore, you’ll learn to work with repositories and e-portfolios and organize the content to gamify the course. You’ll learn how to deal with and organize information, edit, and share it.</p> <p>By the end of this course, you will be up and running with Moodle, having made your repositories portable for collaborative work.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This hands-on informative course will help you grasp each topic by explaining it in a step-by-step manner, along with showing you its complete implementation.</p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 4
Designing Activities in Moodle
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Section 3
Exploring Social or Interpersonal Activities
Learn about social activities in Moodle. They are social because there is interaction among the students. The audience is given a short description of each of them so that they know which activity to choose according to the activity they want to design. - The Big Blue Button is an online web conferencing activity where students can see face to face among themselves. If they cannot attend the online meeting they can see the recording if a resource is added. - There are writing tools for students to talk among themselves such as: chat andforum. The chat is live butthe forum is not. - The other activities that students can perform in a collaborative way are: Database, Lesson, Glossary if designed in a group way, Wiki, and Workshop.