Moodle Course Design Best Practices -- Table of Contents -- Moodle Course Design Best Practices -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course -- The advantages of Moodle -- Getting started with Moodle -- Preparing your Moodle workspace -- Creating user accounts -- Creating a new course shell -- Assigning course roles -- Site settings for course designers -- Activating filters -- Enabling completion tracking -- Enabling conditional activities -- Summary -- 2. Planning Your Course -- Learning outcomes -- Writing learning outcomes -- Bloom's Taxonomy -- Universal Design for Learning -- Multiple means of representation -- Multiple means of access and expression -- Multiple means of engagement -- Selecting resources and activities -- Types of assessment -- Summary -- 3. Organizing Your Course -- Looking at your course goals and the big picture -- Course settings -- General -- Description -- Course format -- Structuring your instructional material using a format -- The number of sections of the course -- Hidden sections -- Course layout -- Appearance -- Files and uploads -- Completion tracking -- Guest access -- Groups -- Role renaming -- Customizing your course page -- The Calendar block -- Instructor/institution links -- Student success links -- Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course -- Fonts -- Images -- Theme considerations -- Summary -- 4. Best Practices in Content Delivery -- Managing types of content -- Adding resources to our course.

Adding course materials via Book -- Adding files -- Adding folders -- Adding pages -- Embedding presentations -- Adding activities -- Assignment module -- Choice -- Forum -- Lesson -- Quiz -- Wiki -- Using assessments to deliver content -- Backing up and reusing activities -- Summary -- 5. Designing Self-paced Independent Study Courses -- Self-paced independent study -- Configuring your course - global settings -- Theme selection -- Activities -- Quiz -- Book -- Badges -- Calendar -- Course-level configuration -- Course settings -- Course completion -- Resources -- Book -- Resources -- Resources - File -- Resources - URL -- Recording webcasts/presentations -- Producing and sharing presentations -- Audio only -- Presentation only -- Activities and assessments -- Choice -- Quiz -- Certificates -- Achievement -- Summary -- 6. Developing Cohort-based Courses with Teacher-student Interaction -- Characteristics of instructor-led cohort-based courses -- Benefits and limitations of cohort-based courses in Moodle -- Setting up your instructor-led course - global settings -- Theme selection -- Configuring the plugins -- Course formats -- Forum -- Calendar -- Course-level configuration -- Course settings -- Resources -- Folder -- Student-created files -- Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools -- Activities and assessments -- Assignment -- Grades -- Course backups for cohort-based courses -- Summary -- 7. Creating Student-centered Project-based Courses -- Characteristics of student-centered project-based courses -- Setting up your project-based course - global settings -- Course default settings -- Theme selection -- Configuring the workshop settings -- Calendar -- Course-level configuration -- Course settings -- Providing resources for the course -- Links to applications for projects -- Audio, video, and geographical information tools.

Selecting activities -- Activities and assessments -- Workshop -- Configuring wiki -- Configuring grades -- Summary -- 8. Moodle for Online Communities -- Moodle and online communities -- Building a knowledge-based online community -- Choosing the best theme for your knowledge-based Moodle online communities -- Using the best settings for knowledge-based Moodle online communities -- Selecting resources and activities for a knowledge-based Moodle online community -- Building a task-based online community -- Choosing the best theme for your task-based Moodle online communities -- Using the best settings for task-based Moodle online communities -- Selecting resources and activities for a task-based Moodle online community -- Building an online community based on learning and achievement -- Creating a certificate course -- Creating badge-generating courses -- Creating a MOOC -- Summary -- Index.