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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

What Can Moodle Do for Me?


Moodle provides you with the tools to store and present music, speech, and video, have online group chats and quizzes and, as we have mentioned, manage assignment submission. Let's take a look at just a few of the advantages of converting to Moodle.

Advantages for the Teacher

Most of us have shared areas where we can distribute worksheets and handouts to students. However, often those shared areas can't be accessed from home. Moodle solves this problem. Shared areas can also become disordered. With Moodle, you can manage and organize the sharing of resources easily. Also, you can make the way you hand out work much more visually appealing—the process is made far more friendly to cautious students.

But Moodle isn't just another resource repository. The 'M' in Moodle stands for 'modular', and Moodle allows you to set assignments and mark them fully online (with Moodle managing the marks for you). Moodle allows you to set tests and have them marked automatically.

Because...