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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to include math quizzes in our Moodle courses. Specifically, we covered these topics:

  • How to create a Moodle quiz. We investigated both the calculated and numerical question types (extremely useful for math teaching).

  • How to install and use the Feedback module.

  • How to install and integrate STACK into Moodle.

  • How to create algebra questions that can be automatically marked using STACK.

We saw how Moodle is great for creating and marking questions automatically. There is a potential problem with Moodle not being able to properly understand the commutative and associative properties (especially when it comes to algebraic structures), but we installed STACK to address this issue.

In the next chapter, we will be investigating math notation for further and higher education.