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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


We've learned about creating, editing, and including graphs and charts in our Moodle courses. In the last chapter, we learned how to include advanced math notation into our courses using ASCIIMathML. ASCIIMathML also includes an advanced plotting function called ASCIIsvg, and we learned the basics of embedding graphs of functions into our courses using this facility. We also investigated creating graphs and charts using three spreadsheet applications: Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc, and Google Spreadsheets. You may well have access to Excel, but if you don't, then Calc and Google Spreadsheets are both free to use.

In the next and final chapter of this book, we will be investigating examples of resources and activities for numerate disciplines in general (not just mathematics).