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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development

You're reading from   Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development The definitive guide to creating great courses in Moodle 4.0 using instructional design principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079037
Length 436 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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William Rice William Rice
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting started
2. Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of Moodle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site 4. Chapter 3: Creating Categories and Courses 5. Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
6. Chapter 4: Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access 7. Chapter 5: Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course 8. Chapter 6: Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice 9. Chapter 7: Evaluating Students with Quizzes 10. Chapter 8: Getting Social with Chats and Forums 11. Chapter 9: Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries 12. Chapter 10: Running a Workshop 13. Chapter 11: Groups and Cohorts 14. Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators
15. Chapter 12: Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks 16. Chapter 13: Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, and Guides 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding and running forums

Discussion boards, also known as forums, are at the heart of Moodle, and they provide you with a way to organize and launch group projects and investigations, add student interaction, provide peer review, share information, and disseminate course content. You can also use forums to provide links to assessments. Many instructors use forums as the primary method for organizing content in the course. For example, in an eight-module course, you can lead each week with a forum. In the forum's description, you can include links to the readings and multimedia (audio, images, and videos). Then, you can ask students questions to respond to them in the forum.

We can get started by creating a Forum activity. After you select Forum from the activity menu, you'll be asked to give the forum a name.

To add the Forum activity, we can follow the same procedure as in the other activities. Click on Add an activity or resource and then select the Forum icon...

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