Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development: The definitive guide to creating great courses in Moodle 4.0 using instructional design principles, 5th Edition

Leverage Moodle 4.0's improved UX features and new tools to create effective courses in today's competitive world of online learning, including blended live and on-demand delivery

Key Features

• Design courses that are easy to navigate and have easy-to-use productivity tools
• Effectively incorporate text, audio, video, and graphics that are ADA compliant and meet the needs of all kinds of learners
• Build the best assessment tools for your learning objectives

Book Description

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success.

This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform's new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You'll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0's new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world.

By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.

What you will learn

• Build courses that emphasize the achievement of learning objectives
• Write a variety of effective quizzes that can be taken online and offline
• Make the most of the navigation and user experience improvements made to Moodle 4.0
• Build courses that reflect current interactive teaching practices, including hybrid learning with web conferencing
• Optimize all kinds of content – text, graphics, audio, video, and recorded webcasts
• Encourage student engagement and collaboration
• Incorporate functionality builders for more responsive and adaptive learning

Who this book is for

This book is for novice as well as experienced course developers who want to incorporate Moodle 4.0's powerful features and make life easier for students, instructors, and administrators. The powerful and flexible Moodle platform will also help with accreditation and for deploying across devices to people in diverse situations.

Table of Contents

1. A Guided Tour of Moodle
2. Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site
3. Creating Categories and Courses
4. Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
5. Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course
6. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice
7. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
8. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
9. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
10. Running a Workshop
11. Groups and Cohorts
12. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
13. Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, Guides

Susan Smith Nash has been developing and administering online courses for more than 20 years for both academic and professional training purposes. She earned her Bachelor's of Science, Masters of Art, and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. She has been widely published in the area of instructional design as well as in energy and economic development. Her books for Packt include Moodle E-Learning Course Development, Moodle 3.X Teaching Techniques, and Moodle Course Design Best Practices. Susan's interests include the development and promotion of new technologies and she enjoys studying films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, as well as hiking and tennis. Susan lives in Oklahoma, near her son and his family.