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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 does the student see?


Our Healthy Eating quiz completed, let's log in as our student Emma to view it from her perspective. The first thing to notice as she enters the course is that those tags her teacher included appear in the tags block on the course page:

When Emma clicks on the Quiz link and starts her attempt, question 1 appears in a page of its own, as we'd planned. She also has a Quiz navigation block to the side showing her the number of questions she has:

Emma also has an option to "flag" a particular question. The following screenshot shows where to flag it and then how the flag appears at the end of her quiz session:

When she reviews her quiz, these questions are highlighted and her teacher will also be alerted to the fact that she felt certain items warranted flagging or bookmarking for further study or discussion.