Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

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By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Free Chapter

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

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

Configuring Your Site

Being mindful of user experience

On-premise versus MoodleCloud

Preparing to experiment

Exploring the site administration menu

Summary

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

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

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

Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

Instructional strategy

Learning objectives

Competency learning definitions

Definitions

Selecting assignments

Understanding assignments

Lesson

Feedback

Choice

Summary

Evaluating Students with Quizzes

Developing graded assignments using quizzes

Question banks

Mastery learning

Summary

Getting Social with Chats and Forums

A forum-based instructional strategy

Learning from one another

The Chat module

Creating and running forums

Summary

Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

Using collaboration as an instructional strategy

Glossary

Wiki

Summary

Running a Workshop

Why use a workshop?

When are group project-based workshops best?

Workshop strategies

The four phases

Summary

Groups and Cohorts

Groups versus cohorts

Cohorts

Managing students with groups

Summary

Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

Defining a block

Configuring where a block appears

Standard blocks

Summary

Features for Teachers

Logs and reports

Summary

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On-premise versus MoodleCloud

This chapter primarily focuses on an on-premise installation that is fully customizable. However, what if you're using MoodleCloud, Moodle's cloud-based solution? The good news is that MoodleCloud is extremely customizable, and you will have a great deal of flexibility in the site administration area of the course.

MoodleCloud (http://www.moodlecloud.com) is very economical and is a perfect site for teachers, instructional designers, and instructional technologists to develop templates, try out new designs, and pilot an entirely new curriculum or approach. In MoodleCloud, there is no limit to the number of courses you can set up. Your only limitation is the number of active users. Moodle is free for up to 50 users. After that, the pricing increases based on the number of users. For the free version, you will need to allow ads to appear.

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