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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
10
Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

Files


Moodle enables anyone with course creator privileges to upload files to the site, or to an individual course. This is done with the Files link in the Administration block. The Files link appears only for users with course creator privileges, such as course creators and teachers. The ability to add files is hidden from Non-Editing teachers. And of course, students will never see the Administration block.

Note that uploading a file is different from uploading an assignment. When a course creator uploads a file, it is with the intention that the file will be used in the course. When a student uploads an assignment, it is with the intention that it will be graded by the teacher.

Why Upload Files?

When a file is added from a course's Home Page, links to the file can be easily created within that course. When a file is added from the site's Front Page, a course creator can easily create links to that file from anywhere on the Front Page. (Remember that the site's Front Page is really just...