Chapter 5: Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course

Resources are the instructional materials that students use to achieve the learning and performative outcomes of a course. In a world where face-to-face instruction is often severely curtailed, and synchronous web conferencing and asynchronous deliveries are often blended, readings, videos, maps, podcasts, and other kinds of documents are the key building blocks that are used in each course. Moodle gives you a way to organize the materials so that they flow in accordance with your course plan, and you can make the resources available in a way that makes sense, given your learning goals. The flexibility that Moodle offers has become increasingly important in today's environment of blended synchronous and asynchronous learning. This chapter will teach you how to add those resources to a course, as well as how to make the best use of them. We will also discuss how to select, sequence, and deploy the resources so that they contribute...