Day 4: Create Moodle Activities and Resources
Section outline
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Using your plans from the three course design worksheets, begin to assemble your Moodle course page.
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Discussion forums can be effective activities for fostering asynchronous discourse and interaction among course participants and supporting active, higher-order learning. However, they require careful scaffolding and facilitation in order to be successful -- without it, they tend to fall flat. This guide for instructors in John's Hopkins professional engineering program is one of the best we've seen for how to design and manage a successful online discussion forum. See step-by-step instructions to set up a discussion board using Moodle Forum.
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What do you want students to do? Select appropriate activities and resources and organize them into learning pathways.
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Bryn Mawr College provides many technology tools and platforms you can use to build an online or hybrid course. The Blended Learning section of the College website, linked here, has information and links to how-to guides and training resources.
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Apply your course design to your Moodle course page. If you would prefer to experiment with an inactive course shell, please request a Moodle sandbox by contacting the Help Desk.
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