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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 – creating a "Handouts" folder


I first want to create a folder to put my handouts in—and in a flash of inspiration I've decided to call the new folder "Handouts".

  1. Press the Create folder button. You can find this button at the top of your list of files:

  2. The Please enter folder name dialog appears. Type the name of the new folder into the box provided and press the OK button:

  3. Press the Save changes button:

  4. That's it. You're done! The new folder is now listed in the My private files area:

What just happened?

We've just created a new folder in our course Files area, ready for us to put some files in. Just click on the plus in front of the folder name to have a look inside it (if you are in the process of actually managing your files, then you can click on the name of the folder itself). Of course, at the moment it's empty. Click on Parent Folder to get back to the folder you've just come from, so you can see the Handouts folder listed again.

Now let's put a file in it.