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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses. By including multimedia, such as animated graphics, bitmaps, photographs, and videos in your Moodle site, you can enhance the enjoyment of your site's users and sustain their attention.</p> <p>Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course &ndash; ideal if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your Moodle course.</p> <p>Go beyond your normal use of Moodle and make your courses really attractive! This cookbook will give you inspiration and teach you to do things you never knew were possible. Link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs to illustrate your lessons. Learn to resize and convert images to the most appropriate formats for Moodle courses, interactive documents, and e-Portfolios. Work with animated graphics to create engaging activities and learn the most complex topics related to formats, compression, bitmaps, and vector graphics while following steps in these simple recipes.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating bar charts with hyperlinks


In this recipe, we are going to perform a very simple activity. We are going to use Open Office Spreadsheet, which we have already used before. Another option happens to be Microsoft Excel. You can download a free trial version from the following website: http://tinyurl.com/27xe849.

Getting ready

We design a Database activity in our Moodle course to survey students according to the way they spend their free time. We just carry out a simple statistic; we are not focusing on other factors, though a Math teacher can help us. We design this activity in two parts so that the first part is the survey to our students and the second part consists of gathering the data and designing a chart using Open Office Spreadsheet, creating the hyperlinks through a website, and uploading it to our Moodle course.

How to do it...

We are going to enter our Moodle course and design the database activity in order to gather information about the way our students spend their free...