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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

Giving immediate formative feedback


Name

Hidden Text

Module type

Filter

Author

Dmitry Pupinin

Released

2008

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

None displayed

The main aim of assessment is to encourage student learning. Not all assessment needs to be worth marks and not all assessment needs to be large scale. The Hidden Text filter allows hidden text to be included in and around a Moodle site. This can be used to prompt students to anticipate answers and then reveal them to confirm their suspicions and reinforce their learning.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the hiddentext directory into the /moodle/filter/ directory then navigate to Site Administration | Modules | Filters | Manage Filters and click on the eye icon in the row labeled Hiddentext.

How to do it...

With the filter in place, text can be marked as hidden text by placing filter tags around it. In a WYSIWYG editor ...