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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

Incorporating third-party content


Publishers are becoming more aware of virtual learning environments (VLEs), like Moodle, and they are beginning to provide materials in VLE-friendly formats. For example, most documents are provided in PDF format (publishers like this format because files can be copy protected), activities are provided in SCORM or Flash format (more on SCORM and Flash in the next chapter). The formats publishers choose are nearly always generic, and it would be unusual if your students needed to install special software on their computers in order to view it. If you aren't sure of the format of files you want to upload, then it's well worth checking with your admin.

Note

Avoid uploading large documents to your Moodle course. Your Moodle's file upload limit might prevent you from doing this. (In versions of Moodle prior to 2.0, you are not warned if you are going to exceed the limit before the upload commences.) Furthermore, your students won't be happy if they have a slow...