Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development : Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3, 4th Edition.
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Author / Creator: | Nash, Susan Smith. |
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Edition: | 4th ed. |
Imprint: | Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2018. |
Description: | 1 online resource (424 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399171 |
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.