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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

Google Docs


Google Docs is a free online office productivity suite that includes Google Spreadsheets. You will need a Google account to sign into Google Docs. To access Google Docs, you will need to visit http://docs.google.com. Once you are logged in to Google Docs, select Create new | Spreadsheet from the main menu. A new window is opened containing a new, unsaved spreadsheet:

I surveyed my class to see what type of music they like. I've entered this data into the spreadsheet:

In the next section, we'll create a pie chart and include it in our Moodle course.

Creating a pie chart in Google Spreadsheets

Follow these steps to create a pie chart in Google spreadsheets:

  1. 1. Select the two columns of data. Choose Insert | Chart from the main menu:

  2. 2. In the Create chart dialog, select Pie. You can also specify a pie chart with a 3D effect:

  3. 3. Click on the Save chart button. Click on a sector, and the details of that sector (number of students and the size of the slice as a percentage) are displayed...