Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

by Susan Smith Nash
Released June 2022
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781801079037

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Book description

Leverage Moodle 4.0's improved UX features and new tools to create effective courses in today's competitive world of online learning, including blended live and on-demand delivery

Key Features

  • Design courses that are easy to navigate and have easy-to-use productivity tools
  • Effectively incorporate text, audio, video, and graphics that are ADA compliant and meet the needs of all kinds of learners
  • Build the best assessment tools for your learning objectives

Book Description

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success.

This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform's new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You'll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0's new navigation features to help keep students from getting "lost." Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world.

By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.

What you will learn

  • Build courses that emphasize the achievement of learning objectives
  • Write a variety of effective quizzes that can be taken online and offline
  • Make the most of the navigation and user experience improvements made to Moodle 4.0
  • Build courses that reflect current interactive teaching practices, including hybrid learning with web conferencing
  • Optimize all kinds of content – text, graphics, audio, video, and recorded webcasts
  • Encourage student engagement and collaboration
  • Incorporate functionality builders for more responsive and adaptive learning

Who this book is for

This book is for novice as well as experienced course developers who want to incorporate Moodle 4.0's powerful features and make life easier for students, instructors, and administrators. The powerful and flexible Moodle platform will also help with accreditation and for deploying across devices to people in diverse situations.

Table of contents

  1. Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development
  2. Fifth Edition
  3. Contributors
  4. About the author
  5. About the reviewer
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the color images
    5. Conventions used
    6. Get in touch
    7. Share Your Thoughts
  7. Part 1: Getting started
  8. Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of Moodle
    1. The history of Moodle
    2. Moodle's philosophy of learning
    3. A plan to create your learning site
    4. Step-by-step instructions for using Moodle
      1. Step 1 – learning about the Moodle experience
      2. Step 2 – installing Moodle and configuring your site
      3. Step 3 – creating the framework for your learning site
      4. Step 4 – making decisions about common settings
      5. Step 5 – adding basic course material
      6. Step 6 – making your courses interactive
      7. Step 7 – evaluating your students
      8. Step 8 – making your course social
      9. Step 9 – adding collaborative activities
      10. Step 10 – managing and extending your courses
      11. Step 11 – taking the pulse of your course
    5. Applying the Moodle philosophy
      1. Adding resources
    6. The Moodle experience
      1. Working with the demonstration sites to learn and practice
    7. Summary
  9. Chapter 2: Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site
    1. Theme and Appearance
    2. A locally hosted installation
    3. Installing Standard Moodle, enhancing it with plugins, and adding the Moodle app
      1. Standard Moodle
      2. Moodle Mobile
    4. A brave new Zoom world – planning for online, blended, and hybrid synchronous and asynchronous delivery
    5. Using MoodleCloud
    6. Exploring the site administration menu
      1. Configuring authentication methods
    7. Configuring the front page and the Default Dashboard
      1. The front page settings page
    8. Summary
  10. Chapter 3: Creating Categories and Courses
    1. Planning based on your institution's mission and vision
    2. Accreditation considerations – organization and alignment
      1. Choosing the best option for your front page or dashboard
      2. Creating course categories
      3. Rearranging course categories
      4. Displaying courses and categories on your dashboard and front page
      5. Functionality booster
      6. Displaying an uncategorized list of courses on your front page
    3. Creating courses
      1. Creating a new blank course
    4. Enrolling teachers and students
      1. Assigning teachers
    5. Summary
  11. Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
  12. Chapter 4: Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
    1. Course material – resources and activities
    2. Getting content ready
    3. Mapping your approach
    4. Identifying course goals and learning objectives
    5. The map – CDD
      1. A universal design for learning
    6. Settings that are common to all resources and activities
      1. Adding a resource or activity
      2. Entering the name and description
      3. Showing and hiding a resource or an activity
      4. Setting the availability of a resource or an activity
      5. Using the visibility setting to show or hide a resource
      6. The gradebook
    7. Rearrange/move items on the course home page
      1. Restricting access
    8. Summary
  13. Chapter 5: Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course
    1. Tying resources to course outcomes
    2. Adding different kinds of resources
    3. Adding URLs and embedded resources
      1. Display options – Embed, Open, and In pop-up
    4. Adding links
    5. Adding pages
      1. Adding a page to your course
      2. Adding images
      3. Pasting text
      4. Composing in an HTML editor and uploading to Moodle
    6. Adding files for your students to download
      1. When a student selects a file from the course
      2. File repositories
      3. Using file-sharing services to collaborate
      4. Using repositories to overcome Moodle's limit on file sizes
      5. Functionality Booster
    7. Adding media – video and audio
      1. Adding video or audio to a page
      2. Functionality Booster
    8. Using labels to further organize your course
      1. Naming your topics
      2. Rearranging/moving items on the course home page
      3. "Instant course" with videos in the public domain – a good idea?
    9. Summary
  14. Chapter 6: Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice
    1. Instructional strategy
    2. Learning objectives
    3. Competency learning definitions
    4. Moodle activities
    5. Adding an activity
    6. Selecting assignments
    7. Understanding assignments in Moodle
      1. Adding an assignment
      2. Requirements of the assignments
      3. Availability
      4. Submission types
      5. Grading an assignment
      6. Common module settings
      7. Restrict access
      8. Activity completion
      9. Tags
      10. Competencies
    8. Setting up lessons
      1. Planning, creating pages, and adding content
      2. Types of lesson pages
      3. Configuring lesson settings
    9. Developing feedback modules
      1. Feedback isn't just for learners
      2. Creating a Feedback activity
      3. Viewing feedback
    10. Exploring Choice
      1. The learner's point of view
      2. The teacher's point of view
    11. Summary
  15. Chapter 7: Evaluating Students with Quizzes
    1. Moodle 4.0's Quiz activity
    2. Developing graded assessments using quizzes
    3. Building question banks
      1. Functionality booster
      2. Question types
      3. Adding existing questions from the question bank
      4. Configuring quiz settings
    4. Adding questions to a quiz
      1. Multiple-choice questions in the question bank
      2. Guessing games
      3. Developing quiz questions that align with the higher-order levels of Bloom's Taxonomy
      4. Matching
    5. Adding random questions to a quiz
      1. Maximum grade
      2. The grade for each question
    6. Mastery learning
      1. Quizzes and competency frameworks
      2. Certificates
      3. Badges
    7. Summary
  16. Chapter 8: Getting Social with Chats and Forums
    1. An interaction-based instructional strategy
    2. Learning from one another
    3. Setting up Chat
      1. The chat settings page
      2. Chat logs
    4. Adding and running forums
      1. Multiple forums
      2. Using the Announcements forum for notifications
      3. Forum-based content delivery
      4. Forum-based assignments
      5. Forum-based peer review
      6. Forum-based review and linking to assessments
      7. Starting and posting to a forum
    5. Linking to collaboration platforms (Functionality booster)
    6. Summary
  17. Chapter 9: Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
    1. Using collaboration as an instructional strategy that replicates today's work environment
    2. Glossary
      1. Enabling glossaries and auto-linking
      2. Enabling glossaries for your site
      3. Enabling auto-linking
    3. Adding and configuring a glossary
      1. Global glossaries versus local glossaries
      2. Main glossaries versus secondary glossaries
      3. Entries approved by default
      4. Always allow editing and Duplicate entries allowed
      5. Allowing comments
      6. Automatically linking glossary entries
      7. Appearance settings
      8. Outcomes
      9. Functionality booster – enabling ratings
    4. Adding glossary entries
    5. Importing and exporting entries
    6. Wiki
      1. Using a wiki for student contributions and explanations of a topic
      2. Using a wiki to create a list of judging criteria for evaluating a competition
      3. Planning collaborative projects – using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki
      4. Using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki
      5. The first-page name
      6. The default format
      7. Functionality booster
    7. Summary
  18. Chapter 10: Running a Workshop
    1. Why use a workshop?
    2. When are group project-based workshops best?
      1. The big questions
    3. Workshop strategies
      1. Peer assessment of submissions
      2. The timing of submissions and assessments
    4. The four phases
      1. The setup phase – the edit settings page
      2. The submission phase – students submit their work
      3. The assessment phase
      4. The grading evaluation phase
      5. The closed phase
    5. Summary
  19. Chapter 11: Groups and Cohorts
    1. Groups versus cohorts
    2. Cohorts
      1. Creating a cohort
      2. Adding and removing students to and from a cohort
    3. Cohort sync
      1. Enabling the cohort sync enrollment method
      2. Adding the cohort sync enrollment method to a course
      3. Unenrolling a cohort from a course
    4. Managing students within groups
      1. Courses versus activities
      2. The three group modes
      3. Creating a group
    5. Summary
  20. Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators
  21. Chapter 12: Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
    1. Defining a block
      1. Uses of blocks
      2. Examples of blocks in action
    2. Configuring where a block appears
    3. Standard blocks
      1. The Activities block
      2. The Text block
      3. The Blog menu block
      4. The Blog tags block
      5. The Calendar block
      6. The Comments block
      7. The Course completion status block
      8. Course/site summary
      9. The Learning plans block
      10. The Online users block
      11. The Recent activity block
      12. The Remote RSS feeds block
      13. The Search Forums block
      14. The Topics block
      15. The Upcoming events block
    4. Summary
  22. Chapter 13: Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, and Guides
    1. Student views of performance and progress
    2. Logs and reports
      1. Competency breakdown
      2. Viewing course logs
      3. Functionality booster
      4. Viewing Live logs
      5. Viewing activity reports
      6. Participation reports – reports used for interventions to assure persistence
      7. Using activity completion
      8. Reports and accreditation
      9. Viewing grades
      10. Categorizing grades
    3. Summary
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Product information

  • Title: Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition
  • Author(s): Susan Smith Nash
  • Release date: June 2022
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781801079037