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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

Encouraging social bookmarking


Name

Social Bookmarking

Module type

Activity Module

Author

Ludo (Marc Alier), Jordi Piguillem

Released

2008

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Limited

Errors

None displayed

Social bookmarking is a practice that allows web users to share sites and pages they are interested in. The key to a successful collection of bookmarks is the set of tags that users define when they bookmark a site. A collection of tags can then be presented to entice users to particular sites. Users can also search using tags.

There are a number of services on the World Wide Web that facilitate general social bookmarking. The Social Bookmarking activity module brings such functionality to a Moodle course.

Getting ready

You will have to download the module code from the author's website. The zip file contains a directory structure with the module code one level deep. Unzip the /mod/bookmarks/ directory from inside the zip file into the /moodle...