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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

Adding video pages


Name

emboodle

Module type

Activity

Author

John Booker

Released

2009

Maintained

Little activity

Languages

English

Compliance

Good (There's not much to it)

Documentation

No help files or online documentation

Errors

None displayed

This is a very simple module for embedding video content hosted on sites like YouTube. If you have emboodle installed, and you can find the page you want on YouTube, this module will take care of the rest.

Getting ready

Download and install the emboodle module into the /moodle/mod/ directory and visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

Before adding an emboodle activity, find your source video page on the video hosting site. Copy the address of the page. A simple way to do this is to copy the text in the address bar at the top of the page. Keep this address in the 'clipboard' to be pasted later.

In your course page, add emboodle from the Add an activity list. The following configuration page should appear:

Setting up an emboodle...