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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

Time for Action Add a Moodle Chat


  1. Decide on the topic in which you want to include a chat room. With editing turned on, click on Add an activity and choose Chat.

  2. Give the chat room a name and provide a short piece of introductory text:

3. For now, the default settings will do. Simply scroll down to the bottom of the page, and press the Save and display button:

We've just added a chat room to our course! It was very easy—just a few clicks and we're done. To enter the chat room, simply click on the Click here to enter the chat now link. Ask a student or colleague to join you. You can see if there's anyone else with you in the chat room on the right-hand side of the screen:

Being Understood Using Emoticons

As we have already mentioned, without visual cues, facial and hand gestures, it is very easy to be misunderstood in a chat room. For that reason emoticons, or smileys, were invented. Have you tried inserting smileys using the HTML editor?

That dialog isn't present in Moodle Chats, but you can...