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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 submission phase


Our screen now shows the set up phase is complete time for Andy to turn on the "lightbulb" of the next phase ready for his students to submit their work:

We've provided the instructions for assessing when we set the workshop up. The next stage is to allocate submissions who will review what? This can be done now or we can wait till the students have sent in some work. Andy's going to wait....

How does the student submit their work?

Clicking on the workshop link as a student brings up the following screen. To submit their work they click the Edit submission link which should be familiar to us from the online text assignment:

Who assesses what?

Ok the class has sent in their poems. We can see the uploads on our editing screen. Andy now needs to decide who gets whose poem to review:

  • Click Allocate submissions.

  • Choose Manual allocation if you want to decide yourself who assesses whose work

  • Choose Random allocation if you want Moodle to do it for you.

  • In Allocation settings decide...