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Index
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Table of Contents
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
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
2. Planning Your Course
Learning outcomes
Writing learning outcomes
Bloom's Taxonomy
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple means of representation
Multiple means of access and expression
Multiple means of engagement
Selecting resources and activities
Types of assessment
Summary
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 links
Student success links
Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course
Fonts
Images
Theme considerations
Summary
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
Embedding presentations
Adding activities
Assignment module
Choice
Forum
Lesson
Quiz
Wiki
Using assessments to deliver content
Backing up and reusing activities
Summary
5. Designing Self-paced Independent Study Courses
Self-paced independent study
Configuring your course – global settings
Theme 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
Audio only
Presentation only
Activities and assessments
Choice
Quiz
Certificates
Achievement
Summary
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 settings
Theme selection
Configuring the plugins
Course formats
Forum
Calendar
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
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
Configuring the workshop settings
Calendar
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Providing resources for the course
Links to applications for projects
Audio, video, and geographical information tools
Selecting activities
Activities and assessments
Workshop
Configuring wiki
Configuring grades
Summary
8. Moodle for Online Communities
Moodle and online communities
Building a knowledge-based online community
Choosing the best theme for your knowledge-based Moodle online communities
Using the best settings for knowledge-based Moodle online communities
Selecting resources and activities for a knowledge-based Moodle online community
Building a task-based online community
Choosing the best theme for your task-based Moodle online communities
Using the best settings for task-based Moodle online communities
Selecting resources and activities for a task-based Moodle online community
Building an online community based on learning and achievement
Creating a certificate course
Creating badge-generating courses
Creating a MOOC
Summary
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