Moodle course design best practices : learn the best practices to design and develop interactive and highly effective Moodle courses /: learn the best practices to design and develop interactive and highly effective Moodle courses. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Nash, Michelle Moore ; Zarko Piljak, cover image.
• Authors: Nash, Susan; Moore, Michelle
• Other Names: Piljak, Zarko cover designer.
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (126 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 371.334; COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia; Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs; Moodle; Open source software; Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs; Moodle; Open source software; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783286829; 1783286822
• Related ISBNs: 9781783286812
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 28, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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