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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

Getting geographical with the maps


Name

Map module

Module Type

Activity

Author

Ted Bowman

Released

2008

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English, Spanish

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

None displayed

The Map module makes use of online map services from Google Maps, or a combination of OpenStreetMap and OpenLayers. It allows teachers and/or students to add locations with other information to a map. The map can be used to show the locations of students around a country or around the world, or it can be used for a variety of other applications.

Getting ready

Unlike most other modules, the Map module needs to access information from outside your server. Information about the cURL library and how to enable it, is available in the initial chapter of this book.

It is assumed that you will generally want to use Google Maps unless access is restricted by the Google Maps API terms and conditions.

To access Google Maps from your server you will need an access...