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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

Summary


I think you'll agree that we are getting on great guns with our Moodle courses. Just in this single chapter we:

  • Uploaded files to Moodle and organized them effectively

  • Learned how to present documents and handouts to students

  • Uploaded images and included them in text

  • Included PowerPoint presentations, and learned what to do if students had problems viewing them

  • Learned how to work with a wiki

  • Now know which types of files are best to include in a course, and how to create them

We've now got our courses populated with static content. At this stage, you might even want to introduce students onto your course. They won't fail to be impressed with the work you have done so far! Remember, if you have set an enrolment key, you will need to give this out to your students.

In the next chapter we will be learning how to make our courses more engaging and entertaining with sound, video, and multimedia.