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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

Combining online users and people


Name

Lonely People Block

Module type

Patch

Author

Nicole Hansen, et al.

Released

2006

Maintained

Limited

Languages

Not applicable

Compliance

Patch file

Documentation

None

Errors

None

The People block contains a single link to the Participants list. The Online Users block shows people who have visited the course page recently. What if there was a way to combine these two related blocks? Well, there is, and it is another simple way to claim back more valuable screen real estate.

Getting ready

The Lonely People Block is not really a block (and it's not a dating service either), it involves a patch. In other words, you are replacing part of the standard Moodle code. This might sound dangerous, but it's really quite a simple change.

How to do it...

There are two ways to achieve this patch. The first is to copy the provided patch file over the existing Online Users block code.

On the Moodle Modules and plugins entry for this patch, instead of left...