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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 Branch Table


  1. From the course front page, click on the name of your new lesson (don't click on the Update icon as this takes you back to the lesson configuration page). Moodle now asks me what I want to do first:

2. The four choices are:

  • Import questions: This is importing questions into a lesson, not into the course question bank. The two are separate.

    • Import PowerPoint: At this stage, teachers get excited. However, importing PowerPoint presentations is a convoluted process: convert your presentation to a set of web pages, compress them into a ZIP file, upload them to Moodle, and a lesson is created for you. Then, you find that all of your impressive transitions and effects are missing. Great for converting a simple set of slides into a Moodle lesson, but not that advanced.

    • Add a Branch Table: Another poorly named option. Rather, a 'branch table' is a web page with buttons at the bottom giving you the choice of which web page to go to next.

    • Add a Question Page:...