Moodle: From Novice Teacher To Expert Online Educator

The definitive guide to creating Engaging Online Courses in Moodle for any student, including School, College & Business

What you'll learn
Undestand how to navigate the Moodle system
Be up to date with Moodle 2.7
Create engaging, effective learning content
Create effective quizzes and assignments
Work confidently with the Moodle content editor
Design a great looking Moodle course
Work with Blocks to include useful learning tools
Requirements
You should have Teacher access to your own Moodle course
You should have course content in mind, ready to create
Description
This course is designed to guide you from a complete beginner level to being an expert Moodle teacher. I cover both the technical and the teaching aspects, helping you not only to create a course easily, but to create it effectively, engaging your students in the best possible way. If you’re teaching with Moodle and need a little help with any aspect of it, then this course is for you. This course was created using Moodle 2.7 - but even the newest version of Moodle hasn't changed much so it's still applicable. In this course we’ll start by looking at how Moodle works as a website, including how to most easily navigate around the system. This is, surprisingly, pretty difficult for many to get to grips with. Next, we’ll look at the structure of a Moodle course, including a section on busting much of the jargon that tends to confuse matters in the Moodle world. Finally, we’ll explore blocks and how they can be used to enhance a course, adding extra features to make yours and your students’ lives easier. Following introductions, we’ll get into the meat of the course, namely Resources and Activities. I’ll cover the full range of resources, including: Labels, and how they can be used to signpost a course Pages, and their main uses in Moodle Books and how they can guide students through material Files and URLs, and how both can add extra depth to a course Then, we’ll get into the most common activities in use on Moodle, particularly Assignments, Chats and Forums. These are the base elements of creating interactive learning on Moodle and can be used to enhance any online course. This course is a great introduction to teaching effectively in Moodle, but I’m certainly not finished yet. I’ll be expanding this course out to include every aspect of Moodle over the coming months, and I’d appreciate your help in doing so. By that, I just mean your suggestions on what to cover next! Moodle is a huge application, so let me know what elements you’re struggling with. Once you buy into the course, I’ll commit to answering your questions in the feedback comments and creating videos to cover those points. I’d love you to get involved now and help me create the best Moodle course on the web. As an incentive I’m currently selling the course at a pretty low price in order to try to source that feedback. If you buy in now and help me out, you’ll be able to access the material permanently in future, even after I complete the materials and raise the price. Thanks for your help!

Overview

Lecture 1 Welcome and Introduction

Section 1: The Basics: Finding Your Way Around Moodle

Lecture 2 How Moodle is Structured

Lecture 3 Navigating Your Way Around using Breadcrumbs

Lecture 4 Using the Navigation Block to Find Your Way Around Moodle

Section 2: Exploring and Editing a New Moodle Course

Lecture 5 Exploring the Default Course View

Lecture 6 The Basics of Editing a Course: Exploring the Editing Icons

Lecture 7 Exploring Terminology: Naming the Parts of the Moodle Page

Lecture 8 Editing Front Page Summary Areas: Intro & Sections

Lecture 9 Editing Section Names

Section 3: The Moodle Content Editor

Lecture 10 A tour of the Basic Editing Tools: Headings, styles, bold, italic & Lists

Lecture 11 Working with Images in Moodle: Uploading, Moving, alignment & Sizing

Lecture 12 Creating External Links within Moodle Content

Lecture 13 Working with Videos: Linking to and Embedding Video Content

Lecture 14 The Advanced Editing Tools: More styles and paragraph formatting

Lecture 15 Creating Tables

Lecture 16 An Introduction to the HTML Editor

Section 4: Working with Blocks

Lecture 17 What Are Blocks?

Lecture 18 Deleting Blocks & Tidying Up a Default Course

Lecture 19 Moving Blocks Around & Creating a 2 Column Layout

Lecture 20 Adding a New Block

Lecture 21 The Block Dock

Lecture 22 The Recent Activity Block

Lecture 23 The Online Users Block

Lecture 24 The HTML Block

Lecture 25 The Activities Block

Section 5: Creating Course Resources

Lecture 26 An Introduction to Course Resources

Lecture 27 Adding and Editing Labels

Lecture 28 Adding and Editing Pages

Lecture 29 Adding and Editing Books

Lecture 30 Adding a URL Resource

Lecture 31 Adding Files to a Moodle Course

Lecture 32 How to Easily Edit Resources: 2 Methods of Editing

Section 6: Creating Activities for Interactive Learning

Lecture 33 The Assignment Activity

Lecture 34 The Chat Activity

Lecture 35 The Forum Activity

Section 7: Section 7: Next Steps

Lecture 36 Tried Podcasting for Education?

Those entirely new to Moodle, looking to learn the system,Those looking to improve their current Moodle courses,Those who want to use new Moodle Tools,Those who want to get up to date with Moodle 2.7