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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide
Dec, 2008 | 316 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
Going Electric
Going Electric
What Can Moodle Do for Me?
Who Is This Book For?
What Will We Be Doing Together?
The History of Moodle
Getting Logged On
Doing Your Job—Your Role
Moodle Look-and-Feel
Summary
2
Set Up Your Courses
Set Up Your Courses
From Curriculum to Courses: What Counts as a Moodle Course?
Let's Get Started
Create Your Course
Time for Action Configuring the Backyard Ballistics Course
Course Structure and Format
Time for Action Set Up the Course Format
Time for Action Defining Each Week/Topic
Assigning Teaching Staff
Time for Action Assigning Roles
Let in the Rabble—Enrolling Students on Your Course
Time for Action Specify a Course Enrolment Key
Summary
3
Add Documents and Handouts
Add Documents and Handouts
Uploading Files
Time for Action Uploading a File
Time for Action Packing Files Together
Organizing Your Files
Time for Action Creating a "Handouts" Folder
Time for Action Putting Files where We Want Them
Time for Action Removing Files
Dishing Out the Work
Time for Action Giving Students Individual Files
Don't Make This Mistake: Moving Files After You have put a Link to Them on Your Course Front Page
Time for Action Displaying a Directory
Documents and Handouts: Which Format?
Time for Action Uploading an Image and Including It in a Summary
Time for Action Compressing Images
Time for Action Creating a Web Page
Turn Large Documents into a Wiki
Time for Action Adding a Hidden Topic
Time for Action Adding a Wiki
Time for Action Creating a Wiki Contents Page
Time for Action Adding a New Wiki Page
Summary
4
Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content
Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content
Linking to Other Websites
Time for Action Links to Websites on the Course Main Page
Time for Action Putting Links in a Moodle Web Page
Time for Action Make a Link Out of Text
Importing Videos
Time for Action Include a Video on Your Course Front Page
Time for Action Embed a Video into a Moodle Web Page
Time for Action Embed the YouTube Player into Your Course
Time for Action Embed a Video from TeacherTube
Playing Audio
Time for Action Embed an Audio Clip
Do More with Embedding
Time for Action Add a Slide Show
Summary
5
Moodle Makeover
Moodle Makeover
Arrange Your Resources
Time for Action Arrange Your Resources
Time for Action Insert a Label
Hypnotic HTML—Finessing to Your Web Pages and Descriptions
Time for Action Grab an Image from a Word Document
Time for Action—Displaying Things Side by Side
Time for Action Add a Welcome Message
Back Up Your Course
Time for Action Back Up Your Course
Summary
6
Managing Student Work
Managing Student Work
Converting Projects and Assignments
Time for Action Add a Topic to a Course and Hide It
Time for Action Add an Offline Activity Assignment
Time for Action Add an Advanced Uploading of Files Assignment
Time for Action Uploading a File to an Assignment
Time for Action Mark an Offline Assignment
Time for Action Providing Feedback on Student Submissions
Time for Action Create a Custom Grade Scale
Time for Action Grading Using a Custom Scale
More Uses for Moodle Assignments
Grading Students on Core Competencies
Time for Action Create a Custom Grade Item in the Grader Report
Time for Action Grading Core Competencies in Assignments
Summary
7
Communicating Online
Communicating Online
Communicating in Moodle
Forums
Time for Action Add a Forum to Your Course
Time for Action Subscribing Users to a Forum
Time for Action Start a Discussion
Time for Action Rate Forum Posts
Time for Action Split a Discussion
Online Chat Rooms
Time for Action Add a Moodle Chat
Time for Action Telling Students When We're Around
Time for Action Add a Calendar to the Course Front Page
Moodle Messaging
Time for Action Send Your Students a Message
Time for Action Adding and Using the Messages Block
Time for Action Add a Contact
Summary
8
Enhancing Your Teaching
Enhancing Your Teaching
Quiz
Time for Action Add a Question to the Question Bank
Time for Action Import a Hot Potatoes Quiz
Time for Action Categorizing Questions
Time for Action Add a Quiz to the Course
Time for Action Disable the Submit Button
Lesson Activity
Time for Action Configuring a Lesson
Time for Action Add a Branch Table
Time for Action Inserting a Question Page
Time for Action Configuring Page Jumps
Wiki
Time for Action Adding a Wiki
Time for Action Using a Wiki Template
Glossary Activity
Time for Action Include a Glossary
Time for Action Adding a Glossary Entry
Choice
Time for Action Add a Choice Activity
Ask the Admin
Summary
9
Putting It All together
Putting It All together
Blended Learning with Moodle
Time for Action New Course Quick Configuration
Time for Action Convert a Crossword to Moodle
Converting to Fully Online Courses
Time for Action Creating Student Groups
Time for Action Manually Adding Students to a Group
Time for Action Specify a Group Enrolment Key
Time for Action Group Work in a Forum
Time for Action Create Groupings
Time for Action Configuring the Grade Book
Backup and Restore
Time for Action Back Up Your Course
Time for Action Restore a Course
Summary

Importing Videos

Including a video in your course (e.g. an AVI, MOV, FLV or WMV file) is as easy as uploading the file to your course Files area and creating a link to it on your course main page, following the instructions in Chapter 3, Add Documents and Handouts.

I'm going to talk about video file formats later in this section. For now, let's get straight on to including a video file in our courses...

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