Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

by Susan Smith Nash
Released August 2018
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781789348606

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Book description

Fast-paced guide for designing effective Moodle courses; experiment with Moodle's features for free using MoodleCloud

Key Features

  • Apply principles of instructional design to create great Moodle learning experiences
  • Enhance collaboration and spur creativity with Moodle
  • Bring together instructional materials, social interaction, and student management functions in your courses

Book Description

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever.

This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.

Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities.

Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners' lifetimes.

What you will learn

  • Build a course structure that fits your goals
  • Design a unique appearance
  • Manage the resources and activities
  • Tips for better organization of your course content
  • Select and set up assessments
  • Include effective instructional strategies
  • Incorporate competency frameworks
  • Run and archive webinars
  • Motivate learners by incorporating badges
  • Explore MoodleCloud

Who this book is for

If you create courses with Moodle, this book is for you. It can be used by teachers, instructors, training managers, Moodle administrators, instructional technologists, instructional designers, and e-learning entrepreneurs. Prior experience with Moodle will be helpful.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright and Credits
    1. Moodle Course Design Best Practices Second Edition
  3. Packt Upsell
    1. Why subscribe?
    2. PacktPub.com
  4. Contributors
    1. About the author
    2. About the reviewers
    3. Packt is searching for authors like you
  5. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Conventions used
    4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
  6. Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
    1. The advantages of Moodle
    2. Getting started with Moodle
      1. Preparing your Moodle workspace
      2. Creating user accounts
      3. Creating a new course shell
      4. Assigning course roles
    3. Site settings for course designers
      1. Course format
      2. Activating filters
      3. Enabling completion tracking
      4. Enabling conditional activities
    4. Designing an effective course for student success
    5. Summary
  7. Planning Your Course
    1. Learning outcomes
      1. Cognitive psychology as applied to learning
      2. Bloom's taxonomy
    2. Universal design for learning
      1. Multiple means of representation
      2. Multiple means of access and expression
      3. Multiple means of engagement
    3. Selecting resources and activities
    4. Types of assessment
    5. Summary
  8. Organizing Your Course
    1. Looking at your course goals and the big picture
      1. Aligning your course with your learning objectives
      2. Course settings
      3. General
      4. Description
      5. Course format
        1. Structuring your instructional material using a format
        2. The number of sections in the course
        3. Hidden sections
        4. Course layout
      6. Appearance
      7. Taking an inventory of tools and applications – Media players
      8. Matching content and tools with student success strategies
        1. Time management strategies
        2. Mapping workflows for student success
      9. Files and uploads
      10. Completion tracking
      11. Guest access
      12. Groups
      13. Role renaming
    2. Customizing your course page
      1. The Calendar block
      2. Instructor/institution links
      3. Student success links
    3. Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course
      1. Fonts
      2. Images
      3. Theme considerations
    4. Summary
  9. Best Practices in Content Delivery
    1. Managing types of content and activities
      1. Adding resources to our course
        1. Adding course materials via Book
        2. Adding files
        3. Adding folders
        4. Adding pages
          1. Embedding presentations
      2. Adding activities
        1. Assignment module
        2. Choice
        3. Forum
        4. Lesson
        5. Quiz
        6. Wiki
    2. Using assessments to deliver content
    3. Incorporating collaborative learning
    4. Incorporating productivity and collaboration apps
      1. Backing up and reusing content
    5. Summary
  10. Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses
    1. Self-paced independent study
    2. Configuring your course – Global settings
      1. Theme selection
      2. Activities
        1. Quiz
        2. Book
        3. Badges
      3. Calendar
    3. Course-level configuration
      1. Course settings
      2. Course completion
      3. Resources
      4. Book
    4. Resources
      1. Resources – File
      2. Resources – URL
        1. Recording webcasts/presentations
        2. Producing and sharing presentations
          1. Audio only
          2. Presentation only
      3. Activities and assessments
      4. Choice
      5. Quiz
      6. Certificates
    5. Achievement and motivation
    6. Summary
  11. Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction
    1. Characteristics of instructor-led, cohort-based courses
      1. Benefits and limitations of cohort-based courses in Moodle
    2. Setting up your instructor-led course – Global settings
      1. Theme selection
      2. Collaborative and guided webinars for cohorts
      3. Configuring the plugins
      4. Forum
      5. Calendar
    3. Course-level configuration
      1. Course settings
      2. Resources
      3. Folder
      4. Student-created files
        1. Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools
      5. Activities and assessments
      6. Assignment
      7. Grades
        1. Course backups for cohort-based courses
    4. Summary
  12. Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses
    1. Characteristics of student-centered project-based courses
    2. Setting up your project-based course – Global settings
      1. Calendar
      2. Competency-based education
      3. Theme selection
      4. Configuring the workshop settings
      5. Calendar
        1. Goal setting and motivation
    3. Course-level configuration
      1. Course settings
      2. Providing resources for the course
      3. Links to applications for projects
        1. Audio, video, and geographical information tools
      4. Selecting activities
      5. Activities and assessments
      6. Workshop
      7. Configuring wiki
    4. Summary
  13. Moodle for Online Communities
    1. Moodle and online communities
      1. Building a knowledge-based online community
        1. Choosing the best theme for your knowledge-based Moodle online communities
        2. Using the best settings for knowledge-based Moodle online communities
        3. Selecting resources and activities for a knowledge-based Moodle online community
      2. Building a task-based online community
        1. Choosing the best activity for your task-based Moodle online communities
        2. Using the best settings for task-based Moodle online communities
        3. Selecting resources and activities for a task-based Moodle online community
      3. Building an online community based on learning and achievement
        1. Creating a certificate course
        2. Creating badge-generating courses
        3. Creating a MOOC
        4. Creating a question bank for a quiz
        5. Building your quiz
    2. Summary
  14. Other Books You May Enjoy
    1. Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

Product information

  • Title: Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition
  • Author(s): Susan Smith Nash
  • Release date: August 2018
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781789348606