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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

By : William Rice, Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

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By: William Rice, Susan Smith Nash
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Overview of this book

This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful educational courses.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. A Guided Tour of Moodle
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1. A Guided Tour of Moodle
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A plan to create your learning site
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Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle
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The Moodle experience
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The Moodle architecture
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Summary
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2. Installing Moodle
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2. Installing Moodle
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Installation step 1 – the web server
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Installation step 2 – subdomain or subdirectory?
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Installation step 3 – getting and unpacking Moodle
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Installation step 4 – the Moodle data directory
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Installation step 5 – creating the Moodle database and user
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Installation step 6 – the installer script
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Installation step 7 – create the administrative user
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Installation step 8 – front page settings
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Installation step 9 – success
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Summary
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3. Configuring Your Site
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3. Configuring Your Site
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Preparing to experiment
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Exploring the site administration menu
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Summary
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4. Creating Categories and Courses
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4. Creating Categories and Courses
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Using course categories and the user experience
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Creating courses
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Enrolling teachers and students
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Handling course requests
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5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
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5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
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Settings that are common to all resources and activities
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Adding a resource or activity
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Entering the name and description
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Showing and hiding a resource or an activity
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Setting the availability of a resource or an activity
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Rearrange/move items on the course home page
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6. Adding Resources
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6. Adding Resources
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Adding different kinds of resources
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Adding URLs
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Adding pages
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Adding files for your students to download
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Adding Media – Video and audio
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Organize your course
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7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
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7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
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Definitions
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Understanding assignments
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Lesson
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Feedback
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Choices
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8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
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8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
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Question banks
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9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
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9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
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The chat module
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Creating and running forums
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10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
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10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
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Glossary
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Wiki
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11. Running a Workshop
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11. Running a Workshop
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Workshop strategies
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The four phases
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12. Groups and Cohorts
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12. Groups and Cohorts
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Groups versus cohorts
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Cohorts
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Managing students with groups
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13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
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13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
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Configuring where a block appears
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Standard blocks
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14. Features for Teachers
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14. Features for Teachers
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Logs and reports
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Index
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Index

Standard blocks

Moodle gives you many standard blocks that you can add to your courses. Some of the most useful ones are discussed in the following sections.

The activities block

The Activities block lists all types of activities that are used in the course:

The activities block

If a type of activity is not used in the course, the link for that type is not presented. The activity type is only shown if your course contains at least one instance of that type. When a user clicks on the type of activity, all those kinds of activities for the course are listed. In the following screenshot, the user clicked on Resources in the Activities block and a list of the resources in the course is presented:

The activities block

Note

If this block is on the site's front page, clicking on a type of activity gives a list for the activities on the front page (not for the entire site).

The blog menu block

By default, every Moodle user has a personal blog on the site. Selecting this block, as seen in the following screenshot, puts the blog menu into...

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