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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 wiki contents page


  1. I originally wrote my teacher guidelines as a Word document. I'm going to cut and paste the contents page from these into the wiki's contents page:

  2. If you are cutting and pasting from another application (it doesn't have to be just Word) then remember to press the Cleanup messy code button. Note also that I've used the Heading 1 style for the titles "Practical Activities" and "Health and Safety". Doing so means the wiki system will recognize these as section titles and include a link to them in the "Table of Contents" box for this page (which you'll see shortly).

  3. You can specify tags—these are words that are associated with a wiki page that can be used later on to help find information (rather than searching for a word in the text). As this is the contents page for my wiki, I'm not going to worry about tagging it.

  4. Click on Save.

  5. That's it. You're done!

What just happened?

I've just created a wiki contents page:

However, I don't want to simply copy...