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

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