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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

You're reading from   Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW A complete guide to create and develop engaging e-learning courses with Moodle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782163343
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Susan Smith Nash Susan Smith Nash
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William Rice William Rice
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Guided Tour of Moodle 2. Installing Moodle FREE CHAPTER 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 Index

Standard blocks

Moodle gives you many standard blocks that you can add to your courses. Some of the most useful ones are discussed in the following sections.

The activities block

The Activities block lists all types of activities that are used in the course:

The activities block

If a type of activity is not used in the course, the link for that type is not presented. The activity type is only shown if your course contains at least one instance of that type. When a user clicks on the type of activity, all those kinds of activities for the course are listed. In the following screenshot, the user clicked on Resources in the Activities block and a list of the resources in the course is presented:

The activities block

Note

If this block is on the site's front page, clicking on a type of activity gives a list for the activities on the front page (not for the entire site).

The blog menu block

By default, every Moodle user has a personal blog on the site. Selecting this block, as seen in the following screenshot, puts the blog menu into...

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