Blocks add functionality to your site or course. This chapter describes many of Moodle's blocks, helps you decide which ones will meet your goals, and tells you how to implement them. In this chapter, you will learn about blocks, their uses, and how to configure and customize them.
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
by William Rice, Susan Smith Nash
Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Guided Tour of Moodle
- Moodle's philosophy of learning
- A plan to create your learning site
- Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle
- Step 1 – Learning about the Moodle experience
- Step 2 – Installing Moodle
- Step 3 – Configuring your site
- Step 4 – Creating the framework for your learning site
- Step 5 – Making decisions about common settings
- Step 6 – Adding basic course material
- Step 7 – Making your courses interactive
- Step 8 – Evaluating your students
- Step 9 – Making your course social
- Step 10 – Adding collaborative activities
- Step 11 – Managing and extending your courses
- Step 12 – Taking the pulse of your course
- Applying the Moodle philosophy
- The Moodle experience
- The Moodle architecture
- Summary
- Installing Moodle
- Installation step 1 – Requirements
- Installation step 2 – Subdomain or subdirectory?
- Installation step 3 – Getting and unpacking Moodle
- Installation step 4 – Creating an empty database
- Installation step 5 – Creating the (moodledata) data directory
- Installation step 6 – Installing Moodle
- Installation step 7 – Final configuration
- MoodleCloud basics
- Summary
- Configuring Your Site
- Being mindful of user experience
- On-premise versus MoodleCloud
- Preparing to experiment
- Exploring the site administration menu
- Configuring authentication methods
- Granting access to courses with enrollment choices
- Language
- Security settings
- Configuring the front page
- Backup
- Setting up the cron job
- Summary
- Creating Categories and Courses
- Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
- Mapping your approach
- Identifying course goals and learning objectives
- Settings that are common to all resources and activities
- Adding a resource or activity
- Entering the name and description
- Showing and hiding a resource or an activity
- Setting the availability of a resource or an activity
- Rearrange/move items on the course home page
- Summary
- Adding Resources
- Tying resources to course outcomes
- Adding different kinds of resources
- Adding URLs
- Adding pages
- Adding files for your students to download
- Adding media – Video and audio
- Organizing your course
- Summary
- Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
- Instructional strategy
- Learning objectives
- Competency learning definitions
- Definitions
- Selecting assignments
- Understanding assignments
- Lesson
- Definition of a lesson
- Example of a simple lesson with remedial page jump
- Types of lesson pages
- Planning, creating pages, and adding content
- Configuring lesson settings
- General settings
- Appearance
- Prerequisite lesson
- The flow control
- Grade
- The Practice lesson
- Custom scoring
- Handling of retakes
- Minimum number of questions
- Adding the first lesson page
- Creating a question page
- Random question within a content page
- Creating pages and assigning jumps
- The flow of pages
- Editing the lesson
- Feedback
- Choice
- Summary
- Evaluating Students with Quizzes
- Getting Social with Chats and Forums
- A forum-based instructional strategy
- Learning from one another
- The Chat module
- Creating and running forums
- Summary
- Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
- Using collaboration as an instructional strategy
- Glossary
- Wiki
- Using a wiki for student contributions and explanations of a topic
- Using a wiki to create a list of judging criteria for evaluating a competition
- Planning collaborative projects – Using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki
- Using the wiki type and groups mode to determine who can edit a wiki
- The first-page name
- The Default format
- Summary
- Running a Workshop
- Groups and Cohorts
- Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
- Defining a block
- Configuring where a block appears
- Standard blocks
- The Activities block
- The Blog menu block
- The Blog tags block
- The CALENDAR block
- The comments block
- The Course completion block
- Course/site summary
- The Courses block
- The FEEDBACK block
- The HTML block
- The Latest News block
- The Logged in user block
- The Messages block
- The My latest badges block
- The My private files block
- The Online users block
- The quiz results block
- The Random glossary entry block
- The recent activity block
- The Remote RSS feeds block
- The Search Forums block
- Section links
- The Upcoming Events block
- Summary
- Features for Teachers
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
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