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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

Converting Projects and Assignments


Moodle provides four types of assignment activity, and they well match any kind of project that you are likely to set for your students. Turn editing on, go to any topic, and click on the Add an activity list. In this list, you will see the four different assignment types Moodle supports. They are:

  • Offline activity—If your student projects can't be uploaded into Moodle because the student submission isn't electronic (just like my poster project), then you can manage grades and your notes on the students' work using this kind of assignment type.

  • Online text—Students are going to be creating the assignment submission using the text editor built into Moodle. That's the one we've been using to create our course so far.

  • Upload a single file—Does what it says on the tin. Students can only upload one file.

  • Advanced uploading of files—Students can upload more than one file. As a teacher, you can also use Moodle as a mechanism for exchanging files between...