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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

What about FTP?


Likewise, if you have very large files and are used to uploading them via FTP into the appropriate numbered course files folder, you might also be somewhat concerned if there is no longer such a place in the moodledata directory. We'll look at workarounds for this in Chapter 8, Admin Issues when we study the administration side of Moodle 2.0. Along with our Google Docs, YouTube, Flickr, and other repositories, there is one available called File system, and it is a fairly simple matter of creating a folder on your server, uploading there via FTP and adding it as the File System repository. That way, when users get to the File Picker they will have a link directly to the folder on the server with any FTP'd files. Alternatively, for those who are familiar with its advantages in Moodle 1.9, it's possible to enable a Webdav repository and use that.