MoodleMonkey (http://twitter.com/moodlemonkey) part of the Leeds City College in the UK recently finished building a course to help explain the importance (and how easy it is) to build courses in Moodle (and really any online LMS) that present materials contextually.
Often, courses built in Moodle are a series of links to various webpages, documents and assignments without any lead-in or framing. By presenting materials contextually teachers can help students understand what topics will be covered and the general focus, layout and flow of the course materials. The course is available as a free download for teachers/schools to take for their own staffs and the lessons are easily learned and displayed.
It’s a great resource for any teachers new to Moodle who are looking to increase course quality.
- [Updated 3/23/2011]]Access the course here: http://moodle.leedscitycollege.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6210
- Download the course from the link above.
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Having problems loading the weblink
http://moodle.parklane.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6210
Just me? or is there a problem.
Kind regards
Tracey
Indeed, looks like their authentication or URL has changed recently. Sorry for the bad link!
Sadly the link is not working…. even in IE 9
The link has changed…the correct link (which works) is now http://moodle.leedscitycollege.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6210
The link to the course page (as above) is ok. Its the link to download the course that is the problem (https://moodle.parklane.ac.uk/global/backup-contextualisation_-_why_it_s_important-20100217-0851.zip) you get a “Error: The page you are trying to access is not available.” message.
yes. I have notified @Moodlemonkey and asked for an updated link. Unfortunately I do not have control over that access. We’ll see in the future. If I hear back we’ll post it here and give an updated link
Sorry! I’ve updated the download link. We totally forgot about the course when we switch to the new Leeds City College Moodle.
A direct link to download the course is – http://lota.co/lOPaea