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Moodle 2.0 First Look

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Moodle 2.0 First Look

Overview of this book

Moodle is currently the world's most popular E-learning platform. The long-awaited second version of Moodle is now available and brings with it greatly improved functionality. If you are planning to upgrade your site to Moodle 2.0 and want to be up-to-date with the latest developments, then this book is for you.This book takes an in-depth look at all of the major new features in Moodle 2.0 and how it differs from previous Moodle versions. It highlights changes to the standard installation and explains the new features with clear screenshots, so you can quickly take full advantage of Moodle 2.0. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Moodle 2.0, and will give you the confidence to make the move up to Moodle 2.0, either as an administrator or a course teacher.With its step-by-step introduction to the new features of Moodle 2.0, this book will leave you confident and keen to get your own courses up and running on Moodle 2.0. It will take you on a journey from basic navigation to advanced administration, looking at the changes in resource management and activity setup along the way. It will show you new ways tutors and students can control the pace of their learning and introduce you to the numerous possibilities for global sharing and collaborating now available in Moodle 2.0
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

The Settings block


Along with the Navigation block, there is also a Settings block which becomes available once we've logged in. Like the links in the Navigation block, those in the Settings block depend on the user's permissions and roles. The following screenshot of users who are logged in on the front page will help explain this:

  • Emma, our student, is only able to access her profile settings.

  • Martin, who has been made Manager of the front page, can access settings to edit the front page as well as his profile.

  • The Admin (me ) has site administration settings in addition to profile access and front page power.

As with the Navigation block, the arrowhead and linked words expand to show the full list of options. This makes for a much neater first view.

A good example is to compare and contrast what an administrator of a Moodle 2.0 site sees in their Settings block (on the left as shown in the following screenshot) with what an administrator of a Moodle 1.9 site sees (on the right, as shown...