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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


It's one thing to put your course materials up on Moodle. But improved education outcomes can be achieved by situating learning in a real-world context. In this chapter, we will look at Moodle modules that can help students be in touch with the world outside.

Note

In order to access services outside your site, your users will need to have access beyond your local network. You may have to address firewall and security issues before this is possible.

Translation blocks

Lost for words? The world is now a smaller place and becoming multi-lingual is an expectation for many students. Having tools for translating text may help students with their language-based work.

  • Access Translator Google block

  • Translate block

Web search in Moodle

Google has become synonymous with searching the web. Bringing Google searches into your course pages can make web searching more convenient and controlled.

  • Moodle Google (Moogle)

  • Google Search block

Accessing Wikipedia

Wikipedia may not be the best source of information...