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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 – putting links in a Moodle web page


To aid the conversion, try arranging your desktop so that you have a Word document and a browser with Moodle in side by side. This will save you from repeatedly toggling between Moodle and your original document.

  1. Return to your course front page and make sure that you have editing turned on.

  2. Choose the topic you want to include the links in and click on Add a resource... and then choose Page from the list.

  3. Type in a name for the new page.

  4. Enter a brief description. This is required but can be as long or short as you wish.

  5. We are now ready to copy over the information from your Word document. Return to your original document and select and copy the links you need.

  6. Return to Moodle and paste the text you just copied into the Page content editing area:

  7. Press the Cleanup messy code button (the button with the brush icon), to make sure that we don't include any special word processing formatting—which we don't need now we are going to display the...