Preface

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform and adds great new features to enhance the user experience for student success.

This edition addresses the opportunities that come with this major update, Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to incorporate sound instructional design in the powerful tools in Moodle to achieve your course goals and learning objectives. In doing so, your courses will become effective for instructors, students, course developers, program managers, teaching assistants, and system administrators alike. You'll learn how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has learned, and also keep them engaged and on track for success. You'll learn how to make sure your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll learn how to generate reports and know exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0's new navigation features to help students keep from getting lost. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include a full array of course content. You will be able to incorporate "functionality boosters" and accommodate changing needs and goals in our evolving world.