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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

Adding pages

Moodle enables you to compose a web page and add it to your course. The page that you add, will be created and stored in your Moodle site.

When you add a page to your course, Moodle displays a text editor. Using this editor, you can put almost anything onto the Moodle web page that a normal web page can contain.

A link to the page that you create will appear on the course's home page.

If you can use a basic word processor, you can use most of the web page editor's features. A full discussion of the editor's features is beyond the scope of this section. Instead, we will examine a few of the key features available in Moodle's HTML editor.

Adding a page to your course

To add a page to your course follow the given steps:

  1. In the topic or the week, where you want to add the resource, click Add an activity or resource. If you're not sure where you want to add the link, just make your best guess. You can move it around the course later.

  2. The Add an activity or resource dialog box will be displayed...

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