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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

Documents and handouts: Which format


You could get all of your files uploaded now, provide links in your course main page and start letting students in right now if you wanted to. But wait for a moment. We haven't really thought about the kinds of files we should upload.

Some bits of the following section are, by necessity, a little technical. If there is anything you are unsure about then speak to your administrator, technician, or IT help desk, if you have one.

Do you use Microsoft Word to create your documents? Here's why distributing Microsoft Word documents might be a bad idea:

  • It's wrong to assume that students are going to have Word installed on their PC.

  • If students have an older version of Word than yours installed on their PC then they probably won't be able to open it. This is especially true if the document filename ends in .docx. That's the new(ish) Microsoft Word 2007 format which isn't compatible with previous versions of Word. There is free compatibility software available from...