Moodle course design best practices : learn the best practices to design and develop interactive and highly effective Moodle courses

✍ Scribed by Moore, Michelle; Nash, Susan Smith

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Series: Community experience distilled
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn the best practices to design and develop interactive and highly effective Moodle courses

About This Book

• Explore Moodle's course development features like themes, social media plugins and archiving content
• Bring together instructional materials, social interaction, and student management functions in your courses
• An easy-to-follow guide to help you create or update your Moodle course

Who This Book Is For

This book can be used by training managers, teachers, instructors, Moodle administrators, instructional technologists, instructional designers, and e- learning entrepreneurs.

If you are looking for a very easy and convenient way to organize learning activities along with group projects and activities, then this book is for you. Some prior experience with Moodle would be helpful, and it would also be helpful if you understand the basics of using HTML and how to work with different multimedia file formats and social media.

What You Will Learn

• Set up a template for a series of courses
• Design the appearance of your course
• Manage the resources and activities of your course
• Organize your course content effectively
• Set up instructional materials for your course
• Select and set up assessments
• Include effective instructional strategies in your course
• Archive your course content for reuse

In Detail

Moodle Course Design Best Practices is a practical guide that will teach you how to use the tools available in Moodle to develop unique courses for many kinds of organizations.

You will be able to utilize the themes that have been contributed by developers. You can incorporate many different types of course materials and interactive assessments. You will also learn how to modify the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments to create courses for individual use, cohorts, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The use of the various multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
The advantages of Moodle
Getting started with Moodle
Preparing your Moodle workspace
Creating user accounts
Creating a new course shell
Assigning course roles
Site settings for course designers
Activating filters
Enabling completion tracking
Enabling conditional activities
Summary
Chapter 2: Planning Your Course
Learning outcomes
Writing learning outcomes
Bloom's Taxonomy
Universal Design for Learning. Multiple means of representationMultiple means of access and expression
Multiple means of engagement
Selecting resources and activities
Types of assessment
Summary
Chapter 3: Organizing Your Course
Looking at your course goals and the big picture
Course settings
General
Description
Course format
Structuring your instructional material using a format
The number of sections of the course
Hidden sections
Course layout
Appearance
Files and uploads
Completion tracking
Guest access
Groups
Role renaming
Customizing your course page
The Calendar block. Instructor/institution linksStudent success links
Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course
Fonts
Images
Theme considerations
Summary
Chapter 4: Best Practices in Content Delivery
Managing types of content
Adding resources to our course
Adding course materials via Book
Adding files
Adding folders
Adding pages
Adding activities
Assignment module
Choice
Forum
Lesson
Quiz
Wiki
Using assessments to deliver content
Backing up and reusing activities
Summary
Chapter 5: Designing Self-paced Independent Study Courses
Self-paced independent study. Configuring your course --
global settingsTheme selection
Activities
Quiz
Book
Badges
Calendar
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Course completion
Resources
Book
Resources
Resources --
File
Resources --
URL
Recording webcasts/presentations
Producing and sharing presentations
Activities and assessments
Choice
Quiz
Certificates
Achievement
Summary
Chapter 6: Developing Cohort-based Courses with Teacher-student Interaction
Characteristics of instructor-led cohort-based courses
Benefits and limitations of cohort-based courses in Moodle. Setting up your instructor-led course --
global settingsTheme selection
Configuring the plugins
Course formats
Forum
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Resources
Folder
Student-created files
Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools
Activities and assessments
Assignment
Grades
Course backups for cohort-based courses
Summary
Chapter 7: Creating Student-centered Project-based Courses
Characteristics of student-centered project-based courses
Setting up your project-based course --
global settings
Course default settings
Theme selection.

✦ Subjects

Moodle.;Instructional systems -- Design.;Computer-assisted instruction.