Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development: The definitive guide to creating great courses in Moodle 4.0 using instructional design principles, 5th Edition

✍ Scribed by Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. A Guided Tour of Moodle
2. Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site
3. Creating Categories and Courses
4. Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
5. Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course
6. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice
7. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
8. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
9. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
10. Running a Workshop
11. Groups and Cohorts
12. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
13. Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, Guides

✦ Table of Contents

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