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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

You're reading from Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788472197

Length 432 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Moodle

Concepts

Learning Management System

Authors (2):

Susan Smith Nash

William Rice

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. A Guided Tour of Moodle FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Moodle

3. Configuring Your Site

4. Creating Categories and Courses

5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

6. Adding Resources

7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes

9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums

10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

11. Running a Workshop

12. Groups and Cohorts

13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

14. Features for Teachers

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Using course categories and the user experience

Categories are a site-wide way to organize your courses. You can also create subcategories. The categories or subcategories become an online course catalog. Organize them in the same intuitive way that you would organize a printed course catalog.

Every Moodle course must be assigned to at least one-course category. Even if you choose to hide the display of categories, each course must still belong to a category; that's how the Moodle platform is organized. For sites with one or a few courses, we often hide and ignore the categories and display just the courses. When we need to show our users an organized catalog, we display the categories and subcategories.

Displaying courses and categories on your front page

There are several ways to display categories on the front page of your Moodle site.

The list that shows both course categories and the courses is called the combo list. You can configure the courses block to make it visible on the left or...

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Authors (2)

Susan Smith Nash

Susan Smith Nash

Susan Smith Nash has been developing and administering online courses for more than 20 years for both academic and professional training purposes. She earned her Bachelor's of Science, Masters of Art, and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. She has been widely published in the area of instructional design as well as in energy and economic development. Her books for Packt include Moodle E-Learning Course Development, Moodle 3.X Teaching Techniques, and Moodle Course Design Best Practices. Susan's interests include the development and promotion of new technologies and she enjoys studying films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, as well as hiking and tennis. Susan lives in Oklahoma, near her son and his family.

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William Rice

William Rice

William Rice is an e-learning professional from New York City. He has written books on Moodle, Blackboard, Magento, and software training. He enjoys building e-learning solutions for businesses and gains professional satisfaction when his courses help students. His hobbies include writing books, practicing archery near JFK Airport, and playing with his children. He is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society, how we create our tools, and how they shape us in turn. Married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, he has two amazing sons.

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