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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 – embedding the YouTube player into your course


The first task is to search for a video that you want to include. A good idea here is to have Moodle and YouTube open at the same time. If your web browser supports tabs then you can tab between them. If not, then have Moodle open in one browser and open YouTube in a second browser.

Here's a video I've found in YouTube on firing a match rocket:

And here are the steps you need to take to embed it into a Moodle web page.

  1. Choose the topic you want to include the video in and click on Add a resource… and choose Page.

  2. Add a small piece of introductory text. I'm just going to write "Watch this video from YouTube showing a match rocket test launch".

  3. Then, click on the Editor's special Edit HTML Source button:

  4. Web pages are written in a special code called HTML and this button allows you to switch between the code for the page (which the Editor is creating for us) and what the page actually looks like (What You See Is What You Get—or WYSIWYG...