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Moodle 1.9 Math

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Moodle 1.9 Math

Overview of this book

Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges. The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You'll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle. Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Math
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating screencasts


Never finding exactly the right video to include in our courses might lead us to wondering how we can create our very own math videos. One option is to do what many teachers and lecturers seem to do: set up a camera in front of your interactive white board and record yourself giving a short lesson on a math topic. If, like me, you are a little camera-shy and don't really want to be onscreen (and not wanting to give your students the opportunity of having fun with your face in Photoshop), then a good alternative is to record a screencast—a recording of your desktop as you describe what you're doing on it. That could be, again, narrating a PowerPoint presentation or, more usefully, if you have a graphics tablet you could be narrating working through a math problem as you draw it onscreen. If this is an option you would like to explore, then Jing (a free, cut-down version of the popular Camtasia Studio software) is available for Windows and Macs (http://jingproject.com...