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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

Glossary Activity


I've got a glossary of ballistics-related terms that I currently give to students as part of their welcome pack. It's basically a sheet of paper I hand out to my students that I wrote in Microsoft Word years ago. If I wanted to, I could easily convert it to Moodle using the Glossary activity. So what would make me want to? What are the advantages of me doing this conversion?

What's great about converting a glossary over to Moodle is that:

  • A glossary entry can be much more than just text: you can use the skills and experience you have learned as you have worked through this book to include graphics and embed multimedia.

  • Students can add entries to the glossary. By converting to Moodle, I can make creating and enhancing my glossary a class activity. Moodle further supports this by allowing me to rate glossary entries.

  • Moodle can be configured so that wherever a word or phrase appears on my course that is included in the glossary then that text is highlighted, I can click on...