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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. 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 video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – defining each week/topic


  1. Return to your course page. Make sure you have editing turned on, by either pressing the Turn editing on button in the top-right corner of the screen or by clicking on the Turn editing on link in the Settings block:

  2. Click the hand and pen icon next to the topic number you want to edit (hovering the mouse over the icon displays a helpful "Edit summary" tip):

  3. Now enter a short summary of the topic. This summary also has to serve as the topic title. You might want to use rich formatting to differentiate the title from the rest of the text:

  4. When you're done, press the Save changes button and you'll go back to your course with the new summary in place. If you want to cancel the change, just press the Cancel button.

  5. Do this for each week / topic in the course.

What just happened

So far we have:

  • Planned how we are going to divide up our course, using either a weekly or a topics format, then configured the course to use that format

  • We included descriptions for...