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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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Susan Smith Nash Susan Smith Nash
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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 an activity

Adding one activity is the same as adding any other activity, so let's go through this now. We'll address what all the activities have in common in this section as well.

Let's consider a course called Dog Grooming for Everyone. Once we've created the course and identified its topics, we can add activities.

As always, let's start by turning on Edit mode in the top right-hand corner:

Figure 6.5 – Turning on Edit mode

Now, let's take a look at the topics. Click on Add an activity or resource and then select one from the menu:

Figure 6.6 – Modifying the topics to customize their content

When you click on Add an activity or resource, the respective menu will pop up. I've selected Activities so that I only see activities. If you forget what each activity is about, you can click the little i icon for more information. Note that it only provides information and does...

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