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Best practices in Moodle Course Design

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BEST PRACTICESIN MOODLE COURSE DESIGNMichelle MooreChief Evangelist@michelledmoore

DISCLAIMER Best practices are still evolving Know and consider your audience Do what you can

DON’T use more than 3 font styles per page.

DO maintain consistency.Screen capture from http://coolcourses.moodle.org/course/view.php?id=43

DO use topic summaries and labels.

DON’T use the course page for content.

DO use the course page as a launchpad.

DO beware the bling!

DON’T be afraid of white space.

DO use images to enhance your course.

DON’T force users to scroll and scroll and scroll.

DON’T overdo the activity names.

DO keep the activity names short and sweet.

DO simplify delivery!

DON’T be the one doing all the work!Screen capture from http://coolcourses.moodle.org/course/view.php?id=4

DO let students participate and collaborate.

DON’T forget about the logs.

Course settings > Show activity reports > Yes DO let students see their logs.

DO give your learners completion tracking.

DON’T overdo the conditional activities.

DON’T be afraid to branch out!

DO work together.

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Marnisya Rahim at Wawasan Open University Enjoyed viewing your slide! Great tips too!! Thanks. 11 months ago

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Maliha Khadidja at Université Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen جامعة ابو بكر بلقايد تلمسان very interesting slide.
I use your tips as bets practices for course design of an ICTE lesson for teachers to be.

Thank you once again. 1 year ago

Randy Thornton, Instructional Technologist Thanks for posting this. I shared this with some people I am helping with a site redesign and they have found the good example slides very useful as examples. I also appreciate that the tips are poor design are very specific and, thankfully, easy to avoid & fix. 1 year ago

James Walker, Teacher at LPVEC I need to review my Moodle courses to make sure to use these great tips. 2 years ago

Dilip Barad, Professor at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Thanks for sharing. I found some of the tips very useful for my moodle. 2 years ago

Nathan Hutchings, Director of Information and eLearning Technologies at St Johns Anglican College Excellent tips here, hmm time to give some of my Moodle courses a refresh 2 years ago

Carla Arena, educator at Casa Thomas Jefferson Excellent objective presentation! 2 years ago