Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development电子书

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development Fourth Edition

Dedication

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Contributors

About the authors

About the reviewers

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Conventions used

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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 social

Step 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 mode

The 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

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 unzip

Uploading 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

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 menu

Configuring 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

Manually enrolling a student in a course

Guest access

Enabling Guest access for a course

Self enrolment

Cohort sync

Creating a cohort

Adding users to a cohort

Adding a user from the cohort page

Adding a student using the bulk action method

Enrolling a cohort in a course

Category enrollments

The flat file

The file

Student ID number required

Course ID required

Role

Summary of flat files

IMS Enterprise file

LDAP

External database

External database connection

Local field mappings

Remote enrolment sync and creation of new courses

PayPal

Mnet remote enrollments (formerly Moodle networking)

Language

About language files

Installing and enabling additional languages

Installing additional languages

Configuring the language

Sitewide locale

Excel encoding

Offering courses in multiple languages

Security settings

The IP blocker – Limiting access to specific locations

Site policies

Protect usernames

Forcing users to log in

Forcing users to log in for profiles

Open to Google

Maximum uploaded file size

Changing the limit on uploaded file size in PHP

Changing the limit on uploaded file size in Apache

Allowing embed and object tags

HTTP security

Using HTTPS for logins

Running Moodle entirely from HTTPS

Filters

Activity names and glossary auto-linking filters

Math filters

Email protection filter

Multimedia plugins

Multi-language content

Word censorship

HTML tidy

Configuring the front page

How to use this section

Front page settings page

Full site name

Front page items

Using a topic section on the front page

Show news items

Backup

Setting up the cron job

Summary

Creating Categories and Courses

Planning based on your institution's mission and vision

Using course categories and the user experience

Displaying courses and categories on your front page

Displaying an uncategorized list of courses on your front page

Choosing the best option for your front page

Creating course categories

Rearranging course categories

Creating courses

Creating a new and blank course

Enrolling teachers and students

Assigning teachers

How to set enrollment methods

Handling course requests

Enabling course requests

Getting notified about course requests

How to request a new course (teachers and students)

Summary

Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

Mapping your approach

Identifying course goals and learning objectives

Settings that are common to all resources and activities

Adding a resource or activity

Entering the name and description

Showing and hiding a resource or an activity

Setting the availability of a resource or an activity

Using the visibility setting to show or hide a resource

Using the ID number to include a resource in the grade book

Restricting access

Summary of the process to use completion conditions

Creating the activities and resources that need to be completed

Creating the activity completion settings

Creating the activities or resources that will be restricted

Setting the competency conditions

Allowing students to see the activity or resource before they can access it

Rearrange/move items on the course home page

Summary

Adding Resources

Tying resources to course outcomes

Adding different kinds of resources

Adding URLs

Display options – Embed, Open, and In pop-up

Embed

Open

In pop-up

Adding pages

Adding a page to your course

Adding images

Inserting an image file

Inserting a hot-linked picture into a Moodle page

Pasting text

Stripping out the formatting – Pasting plain text

Pasting text from Microsoft Word

Composing in an HTML editor and uploading to Moodle

Learn more about HTML

Adding files for your students to download

When a student selects a file from the course

File repositories

Types of repositories

Using file-sharing services to collaborate

Using repositories to overcome Moodle's limit on file sizes

Enabling the filesystem repository

Creating the directory for the filesystem repository

Uploading files to the filesystem repository

Creating the filesystem repository in your course

Adding media – Video and audio

Adding video or audio to a page

Organizing your course

Name your topics

Rearrange/move items on the course home page

Giving directions and organization with labels

Summary

Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

Instructional strategy

Learning objectives

Competency learning definitions

Definitions

Selecting assignments

Understanding assignments

What you can do with an assignment

Types of work students can submit

Submitting a digital file

Requiring students to submit online text

Submitting work done in the real world

Submitting an assignment from the student's perspective

Grading an assignment

Receiving a grade for an assignment

Allowing a student to resubmit an assignment

Adding an assignment

Availability

Submission types

Feedback types

Submission settings

Group submission settings

Notifications

Printer-friendly directions

Indicating that assignments are mandatory

Lesson

Definition of a lesson

Example of a simple lesson with remedial page jump

Types of lesson pages

Content pages

Cluster with questions

End of branch

Planning, creating pages, and adding content

Configuring lesson settings

General settings

Appearance

File popup

Display ongoing score

Display left menu and minimum grade to display menu

Maximum number of answers

Use default feedback

Link to next activity

Prerequisite lesson

The flow control

Allow student review

Provide option to try a question again

Maximum number of attempts

Number of pages to show

Grade

The Practice lesson

Custom scoring

Handling of retakes

Minimum number of questions

Adding the first lesson page

Importing questions

Adding a content page

Adding a cluster

Adding a question page

Creating a question page

Page Title

Page Contents

Answers

Responses

Jumps

This Page

Next or Previous Page

Specific Pages

Unseen question within a cluster

Random question within a content page

Creating pages and assigning jumps

The flow of pages

Editing the lesson

Collapsed and expanded

Rearranging pages

Editing pages

Adding pages

Feedback

Feedback isn't just for students

Creating a feedback activity

Question types

Adding a page break

Avoiding bots with captcha

Inserting information

Adding a label

Creating a textbox for a longer text answer

Displaying multiple-choice questions

Creating multiple-choice questions

The numeric answer

The short-text answer

Viewing feedback

Seeing individual responses

Analyzing responses with the Analysis tab

Choice

The student's point of view

The teacher's point of view

Limit

Display Mode

Publish results

Privacy of results

Allowing students to change their minds

Summary

Evaluating Students with Quizzes

Developing graded assignments using quizzes

Question banks

Configuring quiz settings

General

Timing

Grade

Layout

The question behavior

Adaptive mode

Interactive with multiple tries

Immediate feedback

Deferred feedback

Each attempt builds on the last

Review options

Appearance

Extra restrictions on attempts

Techniques for greater security

The overall feedback

Common module settings

Adding questions to a quiz

Adding questions to the Question bank

Moving questions between categories

Managing the proliferation of questions and categories

Creating and editing question categories

Creating a question

Question types

Adding feedback to a question

Types of feedback for a question

Feedback for individual responses

Feedback for a numeric question

Adding the existing questions from the question bank

Adding random questions to a quiz

Maximum grade

Grade for each question

Changing the order of questions

Preventing glossary auto-linking in quiz questions

Preventing an open book quiz

Mastery learning

Competency Frameworks

Certificates

Badges

Summary

Getting Social with Chats and Forums

A forum-based instructional strategy

Learning from one another

The Chat module

The chat settings page

The name of this chat room

Description

The next chat time and repeat/publish sessions

Saving past sessions – Past sessions and everyone can view past sessions

Preventing students from seeing one another's chats

Creating and running forums

Forum-based content delivery

Forum-based assignments

Forum-based peer review

Forum-based review and link to assessments

General purpose forum

Using the news forum to send notifications

Multiple forums

Forum settings

General settings

The forum name

The forum description

The forum type

The maximum attachment size

The maximum number of attachments

The display word count

The subscription mode

Read tracking

Post threshold to block settings

Ratings

Summary

Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

Using collaboration as an instructional strategy

Glossary

Enabling glossaries and auto-linking

Enabling glossaries for your site

Enabling auto-linking

Enabling auto-linking for the site

Enabling auto-linking for the course

Enabling auto-linking for the activity or resource

Adding and configuring a glossary

The global glossary versus local glossary

The main glossary versus secondary glossary

Entries approved by default

Always allow editing and Duplicate entries allowed

Allowing comments

Automatically linking glossary entries

Appearance settings

Enabling ratings

Adding glossary entries

Importing and exporting entries

Wiki

Using a wiki for student contributions and explanations of a topic

Using a wiki to create a list of judging criteria for evaluating a competition

Planning collaborative projects – Using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki

Event planning

Business plan for a start-up

Using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki

The first-page name

The Default format

Summary

Running a Workshop

Why use a workshop?

When are group project-based workshops best?

Workshop strategies

Peer assessment of submissions

The timing of submissions and assessments

The four questions

The four phases

The setup phase – The edit settings page

Name and description

Grading settings

The grading strategy

The Submission settings

Assessment settings

Feedback settings

Example submissions settings

Availability settings

The edit assessment form page

Adding an example to the workshop

The submission phase – Students submit their work

Allocating submissions

The assessment phase

The grading evaluation phase

The closed phase

Summary

Groups and Cohorts

Groups versus cohorts

Cohorts

Creating a cohort

Adding students to a cohort

Manually adding and removing students to a cohort

Adding students to a cohort in bulk – Upload

Cohort sync

Enabling the cohort sync enrollment method

Adding the cohort sync enrollment method to a course

Unenroll a cohort from a course

Differences between cohort sync and enrolling a cohort

Managing students with groups

Course versus activity

The three group modes

Creating a group

Manually creating and populating a group

Automatically creating and populating a group

Importing groups

Summary

Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

Defining a block

Uses of blocks

Examples of blocks in action

Configuring where a block appears

Standard blocks

The Activities block

The Blog menu block

The Blog tags block

The CALENDAR block

The comments block

The Course completion block

Course/site summary

The Courses block

The FEEDBACK block

The HTML block

The Latest News block

The Logged in user block

The Messages block

The My latest badges block

The My private files block

The Online users block

The quiz results block

The Random glossary entry block

The recent activity block

The Remote RSS feeds block

The Search Forums block

Section links

The Upcoming Events block

Summary

Features for Teachers

Logs and reports

Viewing course logs

Viewing live logs

Viewing activity reports

The participation report

Using activity tracking

Viewing grades

Categorizing grades

Viewing grade categories

Creating grade categories

To create a grade category

To assign an item to a grade category

Using extra credit

Weighting a category

Compensating for a difficult category

Summary

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