Start building a Course

Start building a Course

by DINA ZIADLOU -
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How can I build a course to teach in different organizations globally? 

- The number of courses is one at this moment. 

-The number of participants is 50. 

-The course will be taught in 8-sessions.

-Four instructors will teach this course. (every two sessions of the course will be taught by one instructor)

-The participants will be graded for the course.

-The participants are healthcare stakeholders with MS degrees and terminal degrees. 

- The participants will be connected to Moodle from different countries.

Thanks, 



 


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Re: Start building a Course

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello Dina. These are very big questions smile First of all, it doesn't (mostly) matter whether the participants are in the same country or a different country when they are all online using Moodle in your course. Are you new to Moodle course creation? If yes then I suggest you go to our site learn.moodle.org where you will see both an Admin Basics and a Teaching Basics self-paced course which you can join and work through in your own time, to get started setting up your course. If you want a faciliated course then on 5 October we are running Learn Moodle 3.9 Basics on the same site where you can ask lots of questions and get live help along with starting to build your course - you could build the course you describe above for example, with feedback from others.
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Re: Start building a Course

by Arnab Paul -

Hi Dina,

It is a small world. I was working on my experiential learning website based on Moodle and I ended up on your query. Though I am a moodle newbie but the menu driven site of moodle, I believe is pretty much a straightforward thing If you have the content ready.

A little bit of tinkering with your moodle website should help get you your desired outcome.

I just installed the Lambda theme and it is very user friendly. Maybe installing the theme helped.

Best

Arnab


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Re: Start building a Course

by Ger Tielemans -
To get an idea of what is possible, you could look at what others create in the same situation and how attractive a course can look by using the core and some free third party plugins. (theme Fordson, using badges and hiding the icons in the section overview screen.)
This for example is a MOOC for workers in the water-sector: https://www.washsystemsacademy.org
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wash with fordson theme and hide icons
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Re: Start building a Course

by Joost Elshoff -
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Hi all,

Although I think Ger's example is interesting, I think the key concept in building an engaging course lies not in a theme, specific plugins or badges. Instead, a good course should be good regardless the layout of the LMS.

When I do a Moodle onboarding for new teachers / instructors, I tend to follow a path similar to the one Mary and Helen have set up for the official Learn Moodle Basics and Teaching with Moodle MOOCs:

Prepare
  • Establish learning objectives
  • Select resources (media, articles, etc)
  • Select learning activities to use (assignments, forums, quizzes, H5P, ...)
  • Establish desired learning outcomes (at the end of this course, you'll be able to...)
Create
  • Set up the course structure by creating sections
  • Add your text, media and files
  • Add your activities and resources
Advanced create
  • Set up activity completion tracking
  • Set up grading (formative, summative, ...)
  • Set up conditional access rules
Test
  • Add a dummy student user account to play-test your course, or enrol a colleague in a student role to do this
Adjust where necessary

  • Use the testers' input to adjust and modify


Publish and deploy
  • Set visibility
  • Set start and end date
  • Enrol students
Be sure to evaluate your course at the end of each edition, so you know where to improve, based on your students' input.
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