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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's new in Users


Let's move on to the Users link now:

Authentication

Well, if you are used to Moodle 1.9 and you are expecting to manage authentication via Site administration | Users | Authentication, you will be confused and disappointed! The Authentication link has been moved to Plugins, so we'll check it out there.

Bulk User Actions

New here is the ability to bulk enrol users into a course directly from the users list. We can select users as before in Bulk User Actions and in the drop down choose Enrol the users.

Clicking on Go button then takes us to a screen where our selected users are listed against available courses. The boxes are checked if the users are already enrolled in a course. If we want to enrol them into a new course, we simply check the empty box.

Cohorts

This is Moodle 2.0's take on the long wished for site-wide groups. When we click on the link we're taken to the following screen where we click on Add to enter details of the cohort we want to create:

In the screen that comes...