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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

Introduction


Perhaps the most obvious use of a Learning Management System is to distribute content to students. This chapter looks at modules that allow content to be added to Moodle in new and exciting ways.

Note

With each module introduced it is assumed that you will know how to locate, download, and install the module. Any unusual installation details will be described for each module, but the focus from this chapter onwards is on how to set up and use the module once it is installed.

Adding video

With faster connection speeds and greater storage potential, distributing course content in video form is becoming more feasible than ever before.

Video editing software often allows you to export to Flash format and may even provide you with an HTML wrapper for your video. Videos can also be hosted using services such as YouTube. You may have found a public video on a hosting site that you want to share with students.

It is possible to link to video content without adding modules, but this takes...