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
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