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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 – removing files


I'm going to remove ballistics.zip because all the files have been unpacked from it and it's now just taking up space:

Again, press the Manage my private files button to start the process:

  1. Click on the context menu icon immediately to the right of the file you no longer want. This displays the context menu. Slide the cursor down and select Delete from the menu:

  2. Moodle then displays a Confirmation dialog to double-check with you that this is the file you want to delete. If you are absolutely sure you want to delete the file click Yes:

  3. Remember to press the Save changes button. That's it! You are done!

What just happened?

We've just been learning how to upload a lot of files all in one go by using ZIP files. A ZIP file is a way of packing files together to make uploading them to Moodle easier (rather than uploading individual files one at a time). But once the files have been unpacked, we don't need the ZIP file any more. That's why we've also been learning how...