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4th ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (424 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright and Credits; Dedication; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of Moodle; Moodle's philosophy of learning; A plan to create your learning site; Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle; Step 1 -- Learning about the Moodle experience; Step 2 -- Installing Moodle; Step 3 -- Configuring your site; Step 4 -- Creating the framework for your learning site; Step 5 -- Making decisions about common settings; Step 6 -- Adding basic course material; Step 7 -- Making your courses interactive; Step 8 -- Evaluating your students. |
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Step 9 -- Making your course socialStep 10 -- Adding collaborative activities; Step 11 -- Managing and extending your courses; Step 12 -- Taking the pulse of your course; Applying the Moodle philosophy; Adding static content; Interactive and social course material; Creating activities; The Moodle experience; The Moodle front page; Arriving at the site; Using moodlecloud.com; The main menu; Blocks; The site description; Available courses; Inside a course; The navigation bar; Blocks; The navigation block; Sections; Joining a discussion; Completing a lesson; Editing mode. |
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Normal mode versus editing modeThe Edit icon; The Delete icon; The Hidden/Shown icons; The Group icons; Resources and activities; Adding resources and activities; The administration menu; The Moodle architecture; The Moodle application directory; The Moodle data directory; The Moodle database; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing Moodle; Installation step 1 -- Requirements; Hardware; Disk space; Bandwidth and data transfer limits; Memory; Ensuring minimum prerequisites; Installation step 2 -- Subdomain or subdirectory?; Installation step 3 -- Getting and unpacking Moodle; Choosing a Moodle version. |
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The quick way -- Upload and unzipUploading and decompressing the ZIP file on the server; Installation step 4 -- Creating an empty database; Installation step 5 -- Creating the (moodledata) data directory; Creating the database; Installation step 6 -- Installing Moodle; Web-based installer; Installation step 7 -- Final configuration; MoodleCloud basics; Getting started with MoodleCloud; MoodleCloud options; Summary; Chapter 3: Configuring Your Site; Being mindful of user experience; On-premise versus MoodleCloud; Preparing to experiment; Creating test accounts; Installing several browsers. |
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Exploring the site administration menuConfiguring authentication methods; Manual accounts and no login methods; Manually creating a new user; Suspending a user's account; Enabling email-based self-registration; Authenticating against an external source; Connecting to an external database or server; What happens when users are deleted from the external database?; What happens when usernames are changed in the external database?; Granting access to courses with enrollment choices; Name; Instances/enrollments; Enable; Up/down; Settings; Manual enrollments. |
| Note |
Manually enrolling a student in a course. |
| Summary |
Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3.x E-Learning Course Development guides you through ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Moodle.
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Moodle. |
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Moodle. |
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Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs.
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Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nash, Susan Smith. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development : Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3, 4th Edition. Birmingham : Packt Publishing, ©2018 |
| ISBN |
9781788471701 (electronic book) |
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1788471709 (electronic book) |
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9781788472197 |
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1788472195 (Trade Paper) |
| Standard No. |
9781788472197 |
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