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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development

You're reading from   Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788472197
Length 432 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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William Rice William Rice
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Susan Smith Nash Susan Smith Nash
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Preface 1. A Guided Tour of Moodle FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Moodle 3. Configuring Your Site 4. Creating Categories and Courses 5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access 6. Adding Resources 7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices 8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes 9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums 10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries 11. Running a Workshop 12. Groups and Cohorts 13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks 14. Features for Teachers 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

A forum-based instructional strategy


As you review your learning objectives and seek to map the course materials with the course activities, think about how you can make your course structured around forums and chats.

It may seem hard to envision at first, but in practice it's actually quite simple. As you set up your course, ensure that you include a forum in each of your units. Then you can use the forum for the following purposes:

  • Making instructional materials available. The advantage of having them in the forum is that you can let the instructors comment and add more materials, commentary, and so on.
  • Asking instructional materials-focused discussion questions. The students can read the materials and immediately comment and share their impressions.
  • Posts of drafts and peer reviews. This is a great place to post drafts of papers or comments, and then solicit responses and peer reviews from students.
  • Post rubrics, both for peer reviews and final grading.
  • Post current controversies, links to...
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