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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

Changes in Course administration


What a tutor sees in their Settings block depends on what has been enabled by admin. For instance, in the following screenshot our teacher Andy has the Completion tracking link below as he set up course completion in Chapter 6, Managing the Learning Path.

Some of these features we're familiar with already from earlier chapters; others we'll go through now.

How to enrol students into a course—the Users link

The Users link expands to the following:

  • Enrolled users is where Andy or other tutors can see who is already on the course and where they can manually enrol others. If we look at what he sees when he accesses this link, we note, it tells us the role a user has, any groups they might be in, and how and when they were enrolled.

    Note that, Andy can remove a role by clicking on the X and can add a role by clicking on the icon as shown in the following screenshot:

    To enrol a new user he selects the Enrol users button and a list appears of the available users for...