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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 videos anywhere


Name

MultiMovie Filter

Module type

Filter

Author

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)

Released

2006

Maintained

Not much activity recently

Languages

Not applicable

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Limited (readme.txt file)

Errors

None displayed

If you have sound and video files on your server, the Multimedia Plugins Filter can support a number of multimedia formats.

If you are looking for a simple way to embed videos hosted on YouTube, Google Videos, or TeacherTube around your site, the MultiMovie Filter may be a candidate for you.

Getting ready

Download and install the MultiMovie Filter into the /moodle/filter/ directory. Enable the filter at Site Administration | Modules | Filters | Manage filters.

You will need to have found a video hosted on YouTube, Google Videos, or TeacherTube and know the address of the page that shows the video.

How to do it...

When the filter is enabled, coded entries can be written into labels, forum posts, web pages, and descriptions elsewhere...