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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

Keeping time


A clock can be a useful tool for students, especially when activities are due at specified times. Here we present two clock blocks that can be used for various purposes.

The Analog Clock block is a simple clock that utilizes a Flash object to show the current time. As well as being an appealing representation of the time, it could also be useful in the classroom for students learning to tell the time from an analog clock.

The Simple Clock block is primarily designed to show the difference in time between the Moodle server and the student's computer. This will help the student to understand when activities with deadlines are due at the server.

Note

The Analog Clock block requires a Flash plug-in and the Simple Clock block utilizes JavaScript in the user's browser. If you think students will not have these capabilities, you may not be able to rely on these blocks to display the time.

Getting ready

The Analog Clock block is packaged as a Rar file; if you are using Windows or Mac, you...