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Layout & Appearance on Moodle. Moodle_Best_Practices.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Thinking about Moodle course design. Over the next couple of weeks I am going to be responsible for the design of a Moodle course site. This will be the first time in almost 5 years that I’ve been the academic responsible for a course site, the first time in Moodle and in fact the first time in an “LMS” I didn’t design.
Add to this my on-going feelings of discomfort about the affordances of Moodle’s course structure (scroll of death etc.) and the observation of some truly ugly Moodle course sites and I feel the need to be further informed. The following is a collection of sites and resources I’ve gathered to inform my design of the course site. What have I missed? What are the really good resources for Moodle course design? Basics A very recent effort from Mark Drechsler that gives a introduction to the basics concepts of Moodle course design.
Avoiding the scroll of death Video showing how to “Make your Moodle course page look like a webpage”.This feels like the “workaround” solution to me. Principles Up a level Examples. Moodle course design made simple. – February 3, 2012Posted in: Moodle, My learning, NetSpot, Tutorials Its been a while since my last post, and while I prepare a more significant post on the Assignment module redevelopment project, which is rapidly becoming my main focus for the next little while (among all my other main foci). What better thing to goad me into a new post than being at the 2012 Murdoch Teaching & Learning Forum in Perth. I was lucky enough to co-present (well that’s slightly overstating the few bits and pieces I threw in to the discussion) with Shannon Johnston and Yvonne Button from the University of Western Australia CATL team, who have been working up to a release of Moodle to their twentysomething thousand students later this month.
The topic of the presentation was on the strategies and practicalities of organisational learning for Moodle in the lead up to the release. The Good The Bad and The Ugly.