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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition
William Rice
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition
William Rice
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About This Book
About This Book
- Get to grips with the new features of Moodle 2.8
- Successfully configure site settings, set up the front page, create user accounts, and create courses.
- Follow an example course that will help you to explore the decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful educational courses.
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
Table of Contents
Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
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About the Author
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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. A Guided Tour of Moodle
A plan to create your learning site
Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle
Step 1 – learn about the Moodle experience
Step 2 – install Moodle
Step 3 – configure your site
Step 4 – create the framework for your learning site
Step 5 – make decisions about common settings
Step 6 – add basic course material
Step 7 – make your courses interactive
Step 8 – evaluate your students
Step 9 – make your course social
Step 10 – add collaborative activities
Step 11 – manage and extend your courses
Step 12 – take the pulse of your course
The Moodle philosophy
The Moodle experience
The Moodle front page
Arriving at the site
Anonymous, guest, and registered access
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 workshop
Editing mode
Normal mode 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 menu
The Moodle architecture
The Moodle application directory
The Moodle data directory
The Moodle database
Summary
2. Installing Moodle
Installation step 1 – the web server
How much hosting service do you need?
Disk space
Bandwidth
Memory
Ensuring minimum prerequisites
Installation step 2 – subdomain or subdirectory?
Installation step 3 – getting and unpacking Moodle
Choosing a Moodle version
The quick way – upload and unzip
Uploading and decompressing the zip file on the server
The long way – decompress the zip file locally and upload files
Installation step 4 – the Moodle data directory
Installation step 5 – creating the Moodle database and user
Creating the database
Creating the database user
Installation step 6 – the installer script
Configuration settings and config.php
Database tables
Step 6a – run install.php
Step 6b – specify the web address and directories
Step 6c - specify database settings
Step 6d - copyright
Step 6e - check server
Step 6f - database tables created by install.php
Installation step 7 – create the administrative user
Installation step 8 – front page settings
Installation step 9 – success
Summary
3. Configuring Your Site
Preparing to experiment
Creating test accounts
Installing several browsers
Exploring the site administration menu
Configuring authentication methods
Manual accounts and no login methods
Manually creating a new user
To suspend a user's account
Enabling e-mail-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/enrolments
Enable
Up/down
Settings
Manual enrollments
To manually enroll a student in a course:
Guest access
Enabling guest access for a course
Self enrolment
Cohort sync
Creating a cohort
Adding users to a cohort
Adding a user from the cohort page
Adding a student using the bulk action method
To enroll a cohort in a course
Category enrollments
The flat file
The file
Student ID number required
Course ID required
Role
Summary of flat files
IMS Enterprise File
LDAP
External database
External database connection
Local field mappings
Remote enrolment sync and creation of new courses
PayPal
Mnet remote enrolments (formerly Moodle networking)
Language
About language files
Installing and enabling additional languages
Installing additional languages
Configuring the language
Sitewide locale
Excel encoding
Offering courses in multiple languages
Security settings
The IP blocker: Limiting access to specific locations
Site policies
Protect usernames
Forcing users to log in
Force users to login for profiles
Open to Google
Maximum uploaded file size
Changing the limit on uploaded file size in PHP
Changing the limit on uploaded file size in Apache
Allowing Embed and Object tags
HTTP security
Using HTTPS for logins
Running Moodle entirely from HTTPS
Filters
Activity names and glossary auto-linking filters
Math filters
Email protection filter
Multimedia plugins
Multi-language content
Word censorship
HTML tidy
Configuring the front page
How to use this section
Front page settings page
Full site name
Front page summary
Front page items
Using a topic section on the front page
Show news items
Backup
Setting up the cron job
Summary
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