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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 a video from TeacherTube


It is easier to have both Moodle and TeacherTube open at the same time, just as we did when working with YouTube. Have a look for a video that takes your fancy. Here's the match rocket test launch video again:

  1. In Moodle, return to your course front page, click on Add a resource… and select Page.

  2. Type in some introductory text, just to introduce your video to your students, and then press the Edit HTML Source button.

  3. Switch to TeacherTube and look for Embeddable Player:

  4. Right-click on the web code (as we did with YouTube) and click on Copy.

  5. Now return to Moodle, ensure the Edit HTML Source editor is still open, and paste in the code from TeacherTube we have just copied:

Now we have the same video included in our course, but now being played from TeacherTube instead.

What just happened?

Embedding a video from TeacherTube is very simple—and pretty much the same process we used to embed a video from YouTube. The advantage with using TeacherTube...