Moodle E-Learning Course Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Who is This Book For?
• A Plan for Creating Your Learning Site
• Step-By-Step: Using Each Chapter
• 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 Edit 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 Application Directory
• The Moodle Data Directory
• The Moodle Database
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Moodle
• Go Ahead, Experiment
• Using This Chapter
• Accessing the Site Variables and Site Settings Pages
• Installing Moodle
• Installation Step 1: The Web Server
• How Much Hosting Service Do You Need?
• Installation Step 2: Subdomains
• Installation Step 3: Getting and Unpacking Moodle
• Which Version?
• Which Format?
• Installation Step 4: The Moodle Data Directory
• Installation Step 5: Creating the Moodle Database
• Installation Step 6: Setting up the Cron Job
• Installation Step 7: The Installer Script
• Installation Step 7a: Run install.php
• Installation Step 7b: Specify Settings for config.php
• Installation Step 7c: Database Tables Created by install.php
• Installation Step 7d: Specify Site Variables
• Installation Step 8: Upgrading the Database and Setting Up Tables
• Installation Step 9: Site Settings
• Full Site Name
• Short Name for Site
• Front Page Description
• Front Page Format
• Configuration Choices after Installation
• Filters
• Auto-Linking Filters
• Math Filters
• Email Protection Filter
• Multimedia Plugins
• Multi-Language Content
• Filter Uploaded files
• Backup
• Authentication
• Enrolment Choices
• External Database
• Flat File
• Internal Enrolment
• Paypal
• Summary

• Chapter 3: 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
• ID Number
• Summary
• Format
• Course Start Date
• Enrolment Period
• Number of Weeks/Topics
• Using Group Mode
• Availability
• Use Enrollment Keys to Regulate Access
• Guest Access
• Cost
• Hidden Sections
• News Items to Show
• Show Grades and Show Activity Reports
• Maximum Upload Size
• Words for Teacher and Student
• Force Language
• Adding Teachers and Students
• Blocks
• The Standard Blocks
• Activities
• Administration
• Calendar
• Course Summary
• Courses
• Latest News
• Login
• Main Menu
• Online Users
• People
• Recent Activity
• Remote RSS Feeds
• Search
• Section Links
• Upcoming Events
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Adding Static Course Material
• What Kinds of Static Course Material can be Added?
• The Resource Summary
• Activities Block Encourages Exploration
• Files
• Why Upload Files?
• File Types
• Linking to Uploaded Files
• Why Use Uploaded Files?
• Text Page
• Formatting
• Moodle Auto-Format: for Quick, Limited Formatting
• 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
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Adding Interactive Course Material
• Assignments
• Printer-Friendly Directions
• Make it Clear Assignments are Mandatory
• Choices
• Journal
• Lesson
• The Lesson Settings
• General
• Grade Options
• Flow Control
• Lesson Formatting
• Access Control
• Other
• Question Pages
• The Flow of Pages
• Question Pages without Questions
• The View All Pages Link
• Testing the Questions and Navigation
• Editing and Rearranging Questions
• Adding Questions
• Adding a Branch Table and Branch End
• Quizzes
• Quiz Settings
• A Word about Security
• Question Categories
• Managing the Proliferation of Questions and Categories
• Creating a Question
• Types of Questions
• Multiple Choice
• True/False
• Short Answer
• Numerical
• Calculated
• Matching
• Description
• Random Short-Answer Matching
• Random
• Embedded Answers
• SCORM
• Survey
• Creating a Survey
• Survey Types
• COLLES
• ATTLS
• Critical Incidents
• When to Use the Different Types of Surveys
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Adding Social Course Material
• Chat
• Chat Security
• Chat Times
• Archiving Chats
• Forum
• Discussion Equals Topic
• Using a Forum to Send Mass Emails
• Multiple Forums
• Glossary
• Adding Glossary Entries
• Global versus Local Glossary
• Main and Secondary Glossaries
• 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 and Initial Page
• 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 to Students
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Welcoming Your Students
• First Impression: Login Page, Front Page, or Your Page?
• Customizing the Login Page
• Customizing the Front Page
• Front Page Blocks
• Activities
• Administration
• Calendar
• Front Page Description
• Courses
• Latest News
• Login
• Main Menu
• Online Users
• People
• Recent Activity
• Search
• 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 8: Features for Teachers
• Logs: Where Are They Stored?
• Moodle's Logs Page
• Export Logs using phpMyAdmin
• 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
• Dropping the Lowest Scores in a Category
• Giving Bonus Points
• Hide Ungraded Activities
• Points, Percents, and Letter Grades
• The Teacher Forum
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Extending and Administering Moodle
• Add-On Modules
• Getting Modules
• Installing Modules
• Managing Modules
• Creative Usage of Backup and Restore
• What Gets Backed Up?
• Moodle Backup versus Database Backup versus Directory Backup
• Automated Backups 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
• Create Different Versions of a Course
• Summary

• Appendix A: The Checklist

• Index