Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition

William Rice

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781782163350
• Auflage: 3
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Computer Science General

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.

Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition

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Table of Contents

Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

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. 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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