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Installation step 3 – Getting and unpacking Moodle
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
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