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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

Notifying announcements


Name

FN - Announcements

Module type

Block

Author

Fernando Oliveira, Mike Churchward

Released

2009

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Readme.txt file

Errors

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The Announcements block is an enhancement on the Latest News block. It allows a customizable title, it is more compact and it utilizes forum read tracking.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the fn_announcements block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory then visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

Once installed, the block can be added by selecting FN_Announcements from the Blocks menu.

The block can be used to replace the Latest News forum. They are shown here adjacent to each other for comparison:

Clicking the configuration icon allows a teacher to change the single setting for the block:

Using this setting the teacher can change the block title. The default title used when this setting is empty is "Announcements".

How it works...

The Announcements...