Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development : Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3, 4th Edition.

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development : Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3, 4th Edition.

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3.x E-Learni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nash, Susan Smith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2018.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Moodle.
Moodle
Computer-assisted instruction > Computer programs.
Utilities & tools.
Programming & scripting languages: general.
Internet: general works.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
Computer-assisted instruction > Computer programs
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright and Credits; Dedication; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of Moodle; Moodle's philosophy of learning; A plan to create your learning site; Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle; Step 1
  • Learning about the Moodle experience; Step 2
  • Installing Moodle; Step 3
  • Configuring your site; Step 4
  • Creating the framework for your learning site; Step 5
  • Making decisions about common settings; Step 6
  • Adding basic course material; Step 7
  • Making your courses interactive; Step 8
  • Evaluating your students.
  • Step 9
  • Making your course socialStep 10
  • Adding collaborative activities; Step 11
  • Managing and extending your courses; Step 12
  • Taking the pulse of your course; Applying the Moodle philosophy; Adding static content; Interactive and social course material; Creating activities; The Moodle experience; The Moodle front page; Arriving at the site; Using moodlecloud.com; The main menu; Blocks; The site description; Available courses; Inside a course; The navigation bar; Blocks; The navigation block; Sections; Joining a discussion; Completing a lesson; Editing mode.
  • Normal mode versus editing modeThe Edit icon; The Delete icon; The Hidden/Shown icons; The Group icons; Resources and activities; Adding resources and activities; The administration menu; The Moodle architecture; The Moodle application directory; The Moodle data directory; The Moodle database; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing Moodle; Installation step 1
  • Requirements; Hardware; Disk space; Bandwidth and data transfer limits; Memory; Ensuring minimum prerequisites; Installation step 2
  • Subdomain or subdirectory?; Installation step 3
  • Getting and unpacking Moodle; Choosing a Moodle version.
  • The quick way
  • Upload and unzipUploading and decompressing the ZIP file on the server; Installation step 4
  • Creating an empty database; Installation step 5
  • Creating the (moodledata) data directory; Creating the database; Installation step 6
  • Installing Moodle; Web-based installer; Installation step 7
  • Final configuration; MoodleCloud basics; Getting started with MoodleCloud; MoodleCloud options; Summary; Chapter 3: Configuring Your Site; Being mindful of user experience; On-premise versus MoodleCloud; Preparing to experiment; Creating test accounts; Installing several browsers.
  • Exploring the site administration menuConfiguring authentication methods; Manual accounts and no login methods; Manually creating a new user; Suspending a user's account; Enabling email-based self-registration; Authenticating against an external source; Connecting to an external database or server; What happens when users are deleted from the external database?; What happens when usernames are changed in the external database?; Granting access to courses with enrollment choices; Name; Instances/enrollments; Enable; Up/down; Settings; Manual enrollments.

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