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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

Counting down


Name

Countdown block

Module Type

Block

Author

Matthew Cannings

Released

2007

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English, Polish (available separately)

Compliance

OK

Documentation

Readme.txt file

Errors

Errors displayed when error reporting is turned on

The Countdown block allows a teacher to build anticipation towards an event or some point in time. The block displays a countdown in a number of simple formats, making use of a Flash animation.

Note

There is an assumption that students will have the Flash plug-in installed in their browser; while this is quite likely, the block should not be relied upon to convey critical information.

Getting ready

The block needs to be downloaded from the author's site.

Copy the countdown directory from the zip file into the /moodle/blocks/ directory. There are a number of FLA files at the root of the same zip file that do not need to be copied.

Visit the Notifications page to install the block.

How to do it...

Once installed, you will...