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Welcome to moddle best practices for course Design
we're going to use basic design principles to help me out
course increased in eight min outside of the class period
let's get started this is the loyal home page
this home page is pretty well designed and geared toward loyal as primary
audiences
these are prospective students their parents
and also University Alumni it uses words and images to introduce the school
this home page offers clear navigation to more in-depth information
like info about academic programs admissions criteria
or alumni resources its easily scan by viewers
and just generally easy to understand the look at this home page with links
resources and widgets
promises more riveting content good
the committal 2.3 course meets as a home page
it should also effectively use words and images to introduce you and your course
content
offer clear navigation be easily scannable
and lead to more in death and riveting content
let's look at some examples of more and less engaging course layout
as we talk about best practices this instructor set up a course header that
easily scannable the course had a black includes a header image that
wider than it is tall ok it's why that matters in a moment the block also
includes a brief description of the course
and the instructors contact information
the best practice here is always give an introduction
now back to that image
a primary goal in web design is minimized grueling on the part of the
audience
analytic show that over eighty percent of Internet users pay more attention to
content that's closer to the top of the screen
and less attention as they scroll down so adding at home image
pushes your name contact information course description
further down the page and that means it'll likely be ignored
by many of your students of
the next best practice label your comp
if you're just using the course page in Moodle as a repository for reference
materials
resources or lists than spell that out of course include the introduction to
the course in the header block
but also when you get to the topics below tell your students what they're
looking at
in this spring that to the next best practice
use short relevant titles for resources and activities
make it scannable in this example we feel is the probably scrolls on for ever
that is full nondescript titles if a student in this class become sick
and has to miss a few sessions this list is not going to mean anything to them
such after one could be rewritten
of
next best practice be consistent
don't use more than three fun styles per page research shows that the more colors
in tight weights
on a page increases the cognitive load for your learners
this means that students are spending more time trying to process the text on
the page
and actually absorbing the content so maintain consistency
trays only three types styles on your home page
the header text here is one style introduction is another
and the style used in resources in activity
is the third this instructor also use several colors to make different content
pop
doesn't actually pop do any of these topics the more important than the
others
not really of
images at a focal point to a module and can break up the monotony
other text heavy payloads insert images and be consistent in their size and
placement
the last thing you want is to have pictures that unbalance
overpower or conflict with your important content
it's perfectly alright at a small photograph to the introduction of your
topic
or weekly content black the challenge here is to be consistent
in the size and silent images and placement love the image relative to the
common type
of
now let's drill down into some
this robust content we've been talking about in
this page contains text images
and and embedded video
imagine what the course homepage would look like
if all uv-vis were included in the topics
this professor students might have to scroll all the way through this content
to get to the next course topic
of course homepage
not a repository for all your character there's no need to lay out all here text
images videos and resources right there on that first page
this minimizes scrolling on the part of your students and it'll help you locate
your content as well
instead let your course made like the home page of a website
use headings brief descriptions and links to guide students to the
appropriate content wanna learn more about Moodle course layout
download loyola Moodle style guide to me
if you have questions are you need help contact the faculty technology said
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