I finally got a chance to work through the Moodle toolkit yesterday. I have to admit that I’d been putting it off, because the last time that I tried to work through Moodle I was a little overwhelmed. At the time, I tried to download it straight from the official Moodle website, and build everything from scratch. Fortunately, working with an existing shell is much much easier! Adding a discussion forum was much easier than I anticipated, and of course adding a basic introduction was no problem either.
After this short activity I’m feeling much better about the course that we have to develop later on, though I still anticipate spending a great deal of time on it. One thing that I’m not sure about is the whole look and feel of the student view, and I’m not sure how difficult it will be to find a theme that I’m happy with. I also tend not to like things that are too structured as I like to have options to make freestyle changes, but at this point in time it looks to me like Moodle may not allow that. That being said, I’m looking forward to finding out for myself!
LMS and structured are synonymous: folks wanting something less linear must either have strong programming/coding skills…or must choose another platform!
Welcome to Moodling!