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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


So you have a flashy collection of wonderful material, arranged efficiently, and assessed accurately. How can you ensure that students are involved and interacting with each other in a course?

This chapter brings together a loose collection of modules that will aid you to create harmonious student groups, allow users to be identified by relationship, help students manage their time, and get students to tell you what they thought of the whole experience.

Student nominated groups

Putting students into groups is useful, particularly when group projects need to be completed. However, placing students in groups can be fraught with problems, one of which is unhappy students wanting to be shuffled into another group after a personality clash. With self-nominated groups, students take on the responsibility for choosing which group they will belong to.

  • Group selection module

Identifying peers

Within Moodle, there are many relationships that can exist between users holding different roles;...