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Lots of tips and tricks here for managing a Moodle course—many learned the hard way!The course environment provides various settings for access to educational materials, structuring elements by topic or time. It is possible to create content elements for interaction with material (activity) and for passive perception (resources).
The course environment provides various settings for access to educational materials, structuring elements by topic or time. It is possible to create content elements for interaction with material (activity) and for passive perception (resources).
- Forums provide the opportunity for asynchronous discussions.
Labels are great for organizing materials in your course!
Completion tracking not only helps students keep track of what they've done and what they need to do, it also helps you track what they are doing.
No one wants to create the dread Moodle Death Scroll! Here's a simple and elegant solution to try.Also, check out the description of Collapsed Topics in the More Plugins! book below.
One of the new features as of Moodle 3.3, here's an explanation of how you might take advantage of an activity that is hidden, but available.
This explanation starts with a fix for how to undo this setting if you got there by mistake.....
Standard Moodle is great, Moodle with these plug-ins is even better!These plugins are new to us. We are using them in version 3.5.
Blocks are one of the most useful tools in your Moodle arsenal. Check out my favorites.
Including a course banner at the top of your main course page adds interest and helps participants know what course they're in. Open this page for another way to help course participants keep track of where they are and learn how to add an image to your course name in the dashboard.
Sometimes, the image you insert for your course banner is wider than the viewing space, resulting in the insertion of a horizontal scroll bar. Find out here how you can avoid that (and take advantage of this technique in other text fields, as well!).This explanation arose in Learn Moodle 3.7 (this one's for you, Twahir!).
Customize the image shown in the "card" view of courses listed in the dashboard
Sometimes it's useful to see how your learners are interacting with course materials. Activity logs can reveal all!
Moodle's gradebook is a bit daunting at first, but once you "get" it, it's really useful both as a course management tool and as a means of communication with students.
Wondering how to create a badge? Here's a quick description for you, based on what I've learned along the way. One of the big things I just learned was to check the settings of the items you're going to use as the basis for awarding a badge — be sure that you'll be rewarding the behavior that you want to reward!Add a personal touch to your course with the record feature in the Atto editor.
Recommendations for managing your practice course including instructions for customizing your course welcome message and changing role names.