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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 – including a video on your course front page


The method for including a video on your course front page is exactly the same as the method for including documents and handouts that we worked through in Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts. Let's just run through the procedure again to remind ourselves:

  1. Upload the video to your private files area (see Uploading Files section in Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts for more details). Remember that video files can be very big so it's worth checking the upload limit.

  2. Select a topic and click on Add a resource... and choose File to display the Adding a new File… page.

  3. Specify a name (which is the link your students will click on to watch the video) and a brief description.

  4. Scroll down to the Content section and press the Add… button and the File picker is displayed. From the list of repositories on the left of the File picker, click Upload a file. Next to the Attachment box, press the Browse… button.

  5. Once you've found the...