Skip to Main Content
Moodle® For Dummies®
book

Moodle® For Dummies®

by Radana Dvorak
May 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
424 pages
10h 45m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Moodle® For Dummies®

Course-Building Checklist

Here are a number of techniques and strategies to consider before you start building your course:

Course Starting Point — The Introduction

  • Has an e-mail been prepared/sent to your learners informing them about how to gain access your course?
  • How will learners contact you? Instruct them to use e-mail and/or use messaging in Moodle.
  • If this is a large Moodle site that's part of your organization, is there technical support? Provide learners with technical support contact — you'll save time if someone else can troubleshoot.
  • If learners need to use a different language for the browser, how will you get the information to them?
  • Will you be using the news forum from day one? How will you inform your learners to begin? READ FIRST PLEASE documents are useful, though the younger generations may skip them altogether if they have login info and can jump straight in.

Course Organization and Design

  • Are font styles, content layout, and organization consistent throughout the course? Do you need to follow departmental or organization protocol and design?
  • Will you be using an introduction session with a syllabus and course schedule to teach learners how to navigate your course?
  • Will you give any type of training and/or introduction on how to use Moodle?
  • Are course goals and objectives identified in your syllabus and in your introduction unit?

    image Make sure that the goals ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

David Pogue
Front-end Performance

Front-end Performance

Bruno Skvorc, Craig Buckler, Maria Antonietta Perna, Ivan Curic

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470949429Purchase book