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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


In this chapter, we turned our courses into a truly multimedia experience:

  • It was easy to include multimedia in our courses. Moodle can even embed audio and video into web pages for us, as long as our Admin has got that set properly.

  • Embedding videos from YouTube and TeacherTube was simple, using the fragments of web page code they provide you'll have to make sure that your students will also have access to any websites that you embed videos from, though.

  • Multimedia doesn't just stop at videos and audio. We ended the chapter by including a fantastic free photo montage in the course using Slide.com. I even had music playing in the background as my montage played—but you'll have to take my word for that!

There has been a lot of discussion in this chapter about teachers using the Internet to store content. It is worthwhile mentioning that there are pros and cons to doing this. You will need to keep track of where you put your resources on the Internet. You may find it better to place as...