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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

A customizable menu block


Name

Flyout Block Menu

Module type

Block

Author

Abrar Ullah, Jay Beavan

Released

2009

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English

Compliance

Abnormal configuration

Documentation

HTML instructions with block code

Errors

None

The Flyout Block Menu allows users to create a hierarchical menu that appears dynamically as the user moves the mouse over links. The menu can include links to topics on the course page and links to URLs anywhere on the web.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory and visit the Notifications page. Be careful, the block zip file may contain an extra folder level at its root.

How to do it...

Turn editing on and add the block from the Blocks menu. You will need to move the block to the left column as sub-menu links expand outwards to the right.

The block does not have a conventional configuration, so there is no configuration icon in the header of the block. Instead there is a link in the block...