Sometimes, instructors want to make course progress visible to students throughout the course term. While Moodle makes this possible via course completion tracking, instructors can use the Learning Map plugin to make the process more visually engaging for students.
Before adding the Learning Map plugin to your course, you should have some sort of image file created where you can add your course activities. You can create these images using software such as Canva, Adobe Express, Adobe Illustrator, or even using an uploaded photo. It's a good idea to make sure the image is a high resolution, and that the aspect ratio fits well into the design of your course.
Example of Learning Map image
To create a Learning Map activity in your course, follow these steps.
1. With Edit mode on, click "Add and activity or resource" in the main course area.
2. Select "Learning Map" from the activity chooser.
3. Give your learning activity a name. Scroll down to add your Learning Map image to the activity.
4. After adding your image, use the Learning Map editor to add places to your image,
- Add a new place: double click on the the background
- Add a path: single click on two places
- Remove a place/path: double click on the place or path
- Change properties of a place: right click on the place
5. To associate a place marker with an activity, right click on the place marker. Select an activity from a list of available activities. Available activities include any activity or resource in your course that has completion tracking enabled. As students mark an activity as complete, or meet completion criteria for an activity, the dot associated with that place will change color from red to green.
- Select "starting place" for an activity that starts the learning map sequence.
- Select "target place" for an activity that comes after the starting place in the sequence.
6. After adding places to your Learning Map, connect places by adding paths. Paths should be added in the order you would like the activities to display for your students.
7. Once you've added your places and paths, click "Save and return to course."
As students complete activities, Learning Map will display their progress throughout the course or module!