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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Theme swapping


Name

Session Theme Switcher

Module type

Block

Author

Shane Elliott

Released

2007

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English

Compliance

OK

Documentation

None

Errors

None displayed

If you have a strict corporate institutional site, then there has probably been a lot of thought put into making your theme in order to achieve effective "branding". Fiddling with this might be worth your job. However, if you are not bound by such restrictions, then perhaps you are able to offer users some choice in the look and feel of your site.

The Session Theme Switcher block allows users to change the theme used on a site for the duration of their session in Moodle. The capability for switching themes is limited to teachers and administrators, but could even be extended to other users.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory, but don't visit the Notifications page yet. Delete the install.xml and upgrade.php files from the /moodle/blocks/session_theme...