Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development Table of Contents

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Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Moodle
Chapter 3: Configuring Your Site
Chapter 4: Creating Categories and Courses
Chapter 5: Adding Static Course Material
Chapter 6: Adding Interactive Course Material
Chapter 7: Adding Social Course Material
Chapter 8: Welcoming Your Students
Chapter 9: Features for Teachers
Chapter 10: Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
- Step 1—Learn about the Moodle Experience (Chapter 1)
- Step 2—Install and Configure Moodle (Chapter 2)
- Step 3—Create the Framework for Your Learning Site (Chapter 3)
- Step 4—Add Basic Course Material (Chapter 4)
- Step 5—Make Your Courses Interactive (Chapter 5)
- Step 6—Make Your Course Social (Chapter 6)
- Step 7—Create a Welcome for New and Existing Students (Chapter 7)
- Step 8—Use Teacher's Tools to Deliver and Administer Courses (Chapter 8)
- Step 9—Extend Moodle (Chapter 9)

The Moodle Philosophy
The Moodle Experience
- The Moodle Front Page
  - Arriving at the Site
  - Anonymous, Guest, and Registered Access
  - The Main Menu
  - Blocks
  - Site Description
  - Available Courses
- Inside a Course
  - Breadcrumbs
  - Blocks
  - Topics
  - Join a Discussion
  - Complete a Workshop
  - Assessing Other Students' Work
- Editing Mode
  - Normal Versus Editing Mode
  - The Editing Icon
  - The Delete Icon
  - The Hidden/Shown Icons
  - The Group Icons
- Resources and Activities
  - Adding Resources and Activities
- The Administration Block
- And Much More

The Moodle Architecture
- The Moodle Data Directory
- The Moodle Database

Summary

Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Moodle
- Installing Moodle
  - Installation Step 1—The Web Server
    - How Much Hosting Service Do You Need?
    - What You Should Do Now
  - Installation Step 2—Subdomain or Subdirectory?
    - What You Should Do Now
  - Installation Step 3—Getting and Unpacking Moodle
    - Which Version?
    - The Quick Way—Upload and Unzip
    - The Long Way—Decompress the Zip File Locally and Upload Files
    - What You Should Do Now
  - Installation Step 4—The Moodle Data Directory
    - What You Should Do Now
  - Installation Step 5—Creating the Moodle Database and User
    - Creating the Database
    - Creating the Database User
    - What You Should Do Now
  - Installation Step 6—The Installer Script
    - Configuration Settings and config.php
    - Database Tables
    - Step 6a—Run install.php
    - Step 6b—Checking PHP Settings
    - Step 6c—Specify the Web Address and Directories
    - Step 6d—Specify Database Settings
    - Step 6e—Database Tables Created by install.php
    - What You Should Do Now
- Summary

Chapter 3: Configuring Your Site
- Go Ahead, Experiment!
- The Site Administration Menu
  - Accessing the Site Administration Menu
- Authentication
  - Authenticating Against an External Database or Server
  - Manual Accounts and No Login Methods
- Enrolment Choices
  - Internal Enrolment
    - Flat File
    - IMS Enterprise File
    - LDAP
    - External Database
    - PayPal
    - Authorize.net
    - Moodle Networking
- Language
  - Language Files
  - Language Settings
    - Default Language and Display Language Menu
    - Languages on Language Menu and Cache Language Menu
    - Sitewide Locale
    - Excel Encoding
    - Offering Courses in Multiple Languages
    - Installing Additional Languages
  - Security Settings
    - Open to Google
    - Login Settings
  - Filters
    - Auto-Linking Filters
    - Math Filters
    - Email Protection Filter
    - Multimedia Plug-Ins
    - Multi-Language Content
    - Word Censorship
    - Tidy
- Configuring the Front Page
  - How to Use this Section
  - Front Page Settings Page
    - Full Site Name
    - Short Name for Site
    - Front Page Description
- Backup
- Set Up the Cron Job
- Summary

Chapter 4: Creating Categories and Courses
- Using Course Categories and the User Experience
  - Creating Course Categories
  - Organizing Course Categories
  - Putting a Course into Several Categories
- Creating Courses
  - The Course Settings Page
    - Category
    - Full Name and Short Name
    - Course ID Number
    - Summary
    - Format
    - Number of Weeks/Topics
    - Course Start Date
    - Hidden Sections
    - News Items to Show
    - Show Grades and Show Activity Reports
    - Maximum Upload Size
    - Is This a Metacourse?
    - Enrolment Plug-Ins
    - Default Role
    - Course Enrolable
    - Enrolment Duration
    - Enrolment Expiry Notification
    - Groups
    - Availability
    - Enrolment Key
    - Guest Access
    - Cost
    - Force Language
    - Roles (Words for Teacher and Student)
- Manually Enrolling Teachers and Students
- Blocks
  - The Standard Blocks
    - Activities
    - Administration
    - Blog Menu
    - Blog Tags
    - Calendar
    - Course/Site Description
    - Courses Categories
    - HTML
    - Latest News
    - Login
    - Main Menu
    - Mentees
    - Messages
    - Network Server
    - Online Users
    - People
    - Quiz Results
    - Random Glossary Entry
    - Recent Activity
    - Remote RSS Feeds
    - Search Forums
    - Section Links
    - Upcoming Events
- Summary

Chapter 5: Adding Static Course Material
- What Kinds of Static Course Material Can Be Added?
  - The Resource Summary
- Files
  - Why Upload Files?
  - File Types
  - Linking to Uploaded Files
  - When to Use Uploaded Files
- Text Page
  - Choosing a Format for a Text Page
    - Moodle Auto-Format—for Quick, Limited Formatting
    - HTML Format—for HTML Pages Composed Offline
    - Plain Text Format—for Program Listings
    - Markdown Format—Intuitive, Fast Formatting
  - Window Settings
    - When to Open Pages in a New Window
- Web Page
  - Advantages of Using HTML View When Editing Web Pages
  - Composing in an HTML Editor and Uploading to Moodle
  - Learn More about HTML
- Link
  - When to Use a Link Versus a Web Page
- Directory
  - Why Use a Directory?
- Label
- Adding Multimedia (Audio and Video)
  - Embedding Multimedia
    - Allowing Non-Trusted Users to Embed Items
  - Uploading and Linking to Multimedia Files
    - Workaround for Uploading Large Files
- Summary

Chapter 6: Adding Interactive Course Material
- Assignments
  - Types of Assignments
    - Upload a Single File
    - Advanced Uploading of Files
    - Online Text
    - Offline Activity
  - Creating an Assignment
  - Printer-Friendly Directions
  - Make It Clear That Assignments Are Mandatory
- Lesson
  - What Is a Lesson?
  - Lesson Settings
    - General Settings
    - Grade Options
    - Flow Control
    - Lesson Formatting
    - Access Control
    - Pop-Up to File or Web Page
    - Other Lesson Settings
  - Adding the First Question Page
    - Importing Questions
    - Importing PowerPoint
    - Add a Branch Table
    - Add a Question Page
  - Creating the Question Pages
    - Page Title
    - Page Contents
    - Answers
    - Responses
    - Jumps
    - Create Pages and Then Assign Jumps
    - The Flow of Pages
    - Question Pages without Questions
  - Editing the Lesson
    - Collapsed and Expanded
    - Rearranging Pages
    - Editing Pages
    - Adding Pages
  - Branch Tables
- Quizzes
  - Quiz Settings
    - General
    - Timing
    - Display
    - Attempts
    - Grades
    - Students May Review
    - Security
    - Common Module Settings
    - Overall Feedback
  - Editing a Quiz
    - Create and Edit Question Categories
    - Create and Manage Questions
    - Feedback for a Numeric Question
    - Assemble the Quiz
    - Preventing Glossary Auto-Linking in Quiz Questions
    - Preventing an Open-Book Quiz
- SCORM/AICC
- Survey
  - Creating a Survey
  - Survey Types
    - COLLES
    - ATTLS
    - Critical Incidents
  - When to Use the Different Types of Surveys
- Choices
  - Student's Point of View
  - Teacher's Point of View
    - Number of Choices
    - Limit
    - Time Limit
    - Publish Results
    - Privacy
    - Allow Students to Change Their Minds
- Summary

Chapter 7: Adding Social Course Material
- Chat
  - The Editing Chat Page
    - Name
    - Introduction Text
    - Next Chat Time and Repeat Sessions
    - Save Past Sessions and Everyone Can View Past Sessions
    - Chat Security
- Forum
  - Discussion Equals Topic
  - Using a Forum to Send Mass Emails
  - Multiple Forums
  - Forum Settings
    - General Settings
    - Grade Settings
    - Post Threshold For Blocking Settings
- Glossary
  - Adding Glossary Entries
  - Global Versus Local Glossary
  - Main and Secondary Glossaries
  - Ratings and Comments
- Wiki
  - Using Wiki Type and Group Mode to Determine Who Can Edit a Wiki
  - Wiki Markup Versus HTML Mode
  - Enabling the Uploading of Binary Files
  - When to Use CamelCase Linking
  - Student Admin Options
  - Page Name
  - Choose Initial Page
    - Create a Text File for the Wiki's Home Page
    - If Desired, Create Additional Text Files for Additional Starting Pages
    - Upload Text Files to the Course
    - Create the Wiki
    - While Creating the Wiki, Select the Text Files for the Initial Pages
    - Test the Wiki As a Student
- Workshop
  - Workshop Strategies
    - Peer Assessment of Assignments
    - Timing of Submissions and Assessments
  - Creating a Workshop
  - Workshop Fields
    - Title and Description
    - Grade for Assessments and Grade for Submission
    - Grading Strategy
    - Number of Comments, Assessment Elements, Grade Bands, Criterion Statements, or Categories in Rubric
    - Allow Resubmissions
    - Number of Assessments of Examples from Teacher
    - Comparison of Assessments
    - Number of Assessments of Student Submissions
    - Weight for Teacher Assessments
    - Over Allocation
    - Self Assessment
    - Assessments Must Be Agreed
    - Hide Grades Before Agreement
    - League Table of Submitted Work
    - Hide Names from Students
    - Use Password and Password
    - Maximum Size
    - Start and End of Submissions/Assessments
    - Release Teacher Grades
    - Group Mode
    - Visible
- Summary

Chapter 8: Welcoming Your Students
- First Impression—Login Page, Front Page, or Your Page?
- Customizing the Login Page
- Customizing the Front Page
  - Front Page Blocks
    - Activities
    - Site Administration Menu
    - Calendar
    - Front Page Description
    - Courses
    - Latest News
    - Login
    - Main Menu
    - Online Users
    - People
    - Recent Activity
    - Search Forums
    - Upcoming Events
- Combining Anonymous, Guest, and Registered Access
  - Security Options Available to You
- Look and Feel
  - Themes—Customize Colors and Styles
  - Custom Logo
  - Custom Header and Footer
    - Customizing the Header
    - Customizing the Footer
  - Custom Icons
  - Custom Strings
- Summary

Chapter 9: Features for Teachers
- Reports and Logs
  - The Reports Page
  - Viewing Logs
  - Viewing Activity Reports
  - Site Statistics
    - To Enable Site Statistics
- Using Scales for Feedback, Rating, and Grading
  - Applying a Scale to an Activity
  - Establishing Custom Scales
- Grades
  - Viewing Grades
  - Categorizing Grades
  - Creating and Viewing Categories
  - Using Extra Credit
  - Grading on a Curve
  - When to Use Curve and When to Use Weight
  - Compensate for a Difficult or Easy Category by Weighting Grades
    - Weight
    - Hide Ungraded Activities
    - Dropping the Lowest Scores in a Category
    - Giving Bonus Points
  - Points, Percents, and Letter Grades
- The Teacher Forum
- Roles
- Summary

Chapter 10: Extending and Administering Moodle
- Add-On Modules
  - Getting Modules
  - Installing Modules
  - Managing Modules
  - Backing Up, Restoring, and Duplicating Courses
  - What Gets Backed Up?
  - Automated Backup of Your Site
    - Choosing a Backup Location
  - Backing Up the Database
  - Using phpMyAdmin to Back Up the Database
  - Backing Up the Moodle Directories
  - Create a Disaster Recovery Plan
  - Duplicate a Course with Import
  - Especially for Teachers—Backing Up and Restoring an Individual Course
    - To Back Up a course
    - To Restore a Course
  - Resetting Courses, and Continual Improvement
- Roles
  - Terminology
    - Role
    - Context
  - Moodle's Built-In Roles
  - Assigning a Role
    - To Assign a Role to Someone at the Site Level
    - To Assign a Role to Someone Within a Course Category
    - To Assign a Role to Someone Within a Course (That Is, Enroll a Student or Assign a Teacher)
  - Editing a Role's Capabilities
    - To Edit a Role's Capabilities
  - Recommendations for Working with Roles
- Summary