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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

Where's my blog?


Last year when Emma studied on Moodle 1.9, if she wanted to make a blog entry she would click on her name to access her profile and she'd see a blog tab like the one shown in following screenshot:

Alternatively, if her tutor had added the blog menu block, she could click on Add a new entry and create her blog post there as follows:

The annoyance was that if she added a new entry in the blog menu of her ICT course, her classmates in her Art course could see that entry (even, confusingly, if the blog menu had a link to entries for just that course).

If we follow Emma into the Beginners' French course in Moodle 2.0, we see that she can access her profile from the navigation block by clicking on My profile and then selecting View Profile.

(She can also view her profile by clicking on her username as she could in Moodle 1.9). If she then clicks on Blogs she can view all the entries she made anywhere in Moodle and can also add a new entry:

As before, Emma can also add her entry through...