Develop online courses on the highly popular E-learning platform, Moodle, understanding the realities of today's expanded online instruction, particularly with blended synchronous and asynchronous delivery
Key Features
- Prepare a Moodle site for your courses
- Build course content to populate your courses
- Develop assessments, including auto-graded, teacher-graded, and collaborative assessments
Book Description
The open-source software Moodle enables educational institutions and training providers to build and deliver high-quality, flexible courses. Educators, course administrators, and instructional designers will benefit from learning how to use Moodle's capabilities and respond to increased demand for synchronous and asynchronous online courses.
This updated fifth edition combines principles of instructional design with practical instructions that align with current and evolving needs. It also provides important guidance for accreditation reviews. Designed with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and useful guidance from the latest Moodle version, you'll learn how to determine the best way to set up the Moodle platform and then configure your courses to align with your overall goals and vision. You'll also understand how to add and incorporate each type of component that you will need to deliver content, conduct assessments, and manage student records.
By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your educational program, include a full array of course content, build in live web meetings such as Zoom, incorporate self-graded assessments, automatically record mastery levels, and even generate certificates.
What you will learn
- Build courses that reflect current teaching practices, including hybrid with web conferencing
- Incorporate sound instructional design principles
- Understand how to prepare for accreditation reviews
- Streamline the flow of instruction and assessment
- Tie learning objectives to course content and assessments
- Build activities that engage students and speed up learning
- Incorporate functionality builders for more responsive and adaptive learning
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle and develop useful courses. If you're a beginner, this book will be a helpful guide to understanding how the software works and exploring great ideas to start creating your first course. Experienced Moodle users will also find powerful insights and up-to-date content for developing successful educational courses in this book.
Table of Contents
- A Guided Tour of Moodle
- Installing Moodle On Your Server Versus Cloud Hosting
- Configuring Your Site
- Creating Categories and Courses
- Developing a Course Map to Manage Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
- Adding Resources
- Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice
- Evaluating Students with Quizzes
- Getting Social with Chats and Forums
- Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
- Running a Workshop
- Managing Students Within A Course
- Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
- Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, Guides
