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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

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By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
A Guided Tour of Moodle
A Guided Tour of Moodle
Moodle's philosophy of learning
A plan to create your learning site
Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle
The Moodle experience
The Moodle architecture
Summary
2
Installing Moodle
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Installing Moodle
Installation step 1 – Requirements
Installation step 2 – Subdomain or subdirectory?
Installation step 3 – Getting and unpacking Moodle
Installation step 4 – Creating an empty database
Installation step 5 – Creating the (moodledata) data directory
Installation step 6 – Installing Moodle
Installation step 7 – Final configuration
MoodleCloud basics
Summary
3
Configuring Your Site
Configuring Your Site
Being mindful of user experience
On-premise versus MoodleCloud
Preparing to experiment
Exploring the site administration menu
Summary
4
Creating Categories and Courses
Creating Categories and Courses
Planning based on your institution's mission and vision
Using course categories and the user experience
Creating courses
Enrolling teachers and students
Handling course requests
Summary
5
Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
Mapping your approach
Identifying course goals and learning objectives
Settings that are common to all resources and activities
Adding a resource or activity
Entering the name and description
Showing and hiding a resource or an activity
Setting the availability of a resource or an activity
Rearrange/move items on the course home page
Summary
6
Adding Resources
Adding Resources
Tying resources to course outcomes
Adding different kinds of resources
Adding URLs
Adding pages
Adding files for your students to download
Adding media – Video and audio
Organizing your course
Summary
7
Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
Instructional strategy
Learning objectives
Competency learning definitions
Definitions
Selecting assignments
Understanding assignments
Lesson
Feedback
Choice
Summary
8
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
Developing graded assignments using quizzes
Question banks
Mastery learning
Summary
9
Getting Social with Chats and Forums
Getting Social with Chats and Forums
A forum-based instructional strategy
Learning from one another
The Chat module
Creating and running forums
Summary
10
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Using collaboration as an instructional strategy
Glossary
Wiki
Summary
11
Running a Workshop
Running a Workshop
Why use a workshop?
When are group project-based workshops best?
Workshop strategies
The four phases
Summary
12
Groups and Cohorts
Groups and Cohorts
Groups versus cohorts
Cohorts
Managing students with groups
Summary
13
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
Defining a block
Configuring where a block appears
Standard blocks
Summary
14
Features for Teachers
Features for Teachers
Logs and reports
Summary
15
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Installation step 7 – Final configuration

Take a look at the settings within Moodle and review the options within the Moodle Site administration screens (accessible from the Site administration tab in the Administration block).

You will be able to include plugins and set up email and authentication:

  • Administration | Site administration | Plugins | Message outputs | Email: Set your SMTP server and authentication if required (so that your Moodle site can send emails). The support contact for your site is also set on this page.
  • Administration | Site administration | Server | System paths: Set the paths to du, dot, and aspell binaries.
  • Administration | Site administration | Server | HTTP: If you are behind a firewall, you may need to set your proxy credentials in the Web proxy section.
  • Administration | Site administration | Location | Update timezones: Run this to ensure that...
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