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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 – adding a new wiki page


  1. Click on the Edit tab at the top of the page:

  2. I want to turn the item Hydrogen Filled Balloons into a link to a new page. To do this I'm going to enclose the words in double-square brackets:

  3. Press the Save button.

  4. Before moving on, take a look at the words we encased in square brackets. They are now red and in italics:

  5. "Hydrogen Filled Balloons" is now a link. Click on the link and the wiki automatically asks you whether you want to create a new page (you'll need to press the Create page button again)—that's the "quick" part. I'm going to copy the contents of my teacher notes for the Hydrogen Filled Balloons experiment into the page (repeating the process I used before).

  6. Press the Save button when you are done creating the new page.

  7. That's it. The new page has been created. To try out the new wiki, and to test to see whether your new link works, return to your course main page. Click on the wiki and you will be shown the wiki's contents page:

  8. The item...