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Reflecting back on creating my Moodle site, I notice that I completed quite a bit of Assignment #5 back in February.\u00a0 In order to create the quiz for Assignment #3, I felt I needed to create all the necessary supporting material.\u00a0 It was simply part of my process rather than a premeditated effort.<\/p>\n
As I explored Moodle\u2019s affordances I went ahead and starting creating discussion forums and activities in Module 2 that would students would complete prior to doing the quiz.\u00a0 Module 2 includes a page on required readings, a wiki for chapter vocabulary, link to notes in Google Doc, a discussion forum entitled \u201cFinding Our Way\u201d, a choice activity for students to indicate an area of research and finally the chapter quiz. \u00a0I set Module 3 as a selective release dependent on the students successfully complete the Chapter 10 quiz and conditional upon achieving a score of over 60%.<\/p>\n
There are several discussion forums in my LMS course site.\u00a0 The \u201cNews Forum is where the instructor will post announcements for students regarding the course and assignments.\u00a0 The \u201cGeneral Course Questions\u201d forum is where students may post inquiries pertaining to the course that they are seeking general clarification on.\u00a0 This is to facilitate a collaborative learning environment in a digital space. As I already mentioned, there is a discussion form in Module 2 and in Module 4 there is a group specific discussion forum.<\/p>\n
The most challenging portion of this assignment proved to be customization the splash page.\u00a0 I had spent a good deal of time experimenting with different themes and eventually settled on the Sky High theme.\u00a0 I spent hours playing around with setting and looking up solutions online to figure out how to improve the look and feel of my home page.\u00a0 I finally reached out to my Google+ community for advice. Once again a former classmate came to my rescue.\u00a0 We had a Google Hangout, did a screen share and she walked me through the process.\u00a0 Remarkably, it was not as difficult as I originally thought but I had missed a key button and didn\u2019t think to use the \u2018insert table\u2019 option to organize my navigational components.\u00a0 In the end I was able to successfully incorporate personal and creative commons images in to my splash page and link the navigational components both within the course and externally.<\/p>\n
All in all, this was an extremely valuable learning experience.\u00a0 I feel more confident that I can create pages for an online course and I have a much better idea of the time it takes to undertake such a venture, even when you already have course materials.\u00a0 There are so many settings and customizations available that time quickly slips away as you explore design elements.\u00a0 This has been one of the most valuable experiences in the MET programs thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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