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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 – arranging your resources


  1. Remember that you need editing turned on before you start.

  2. Choose the resource you want to move. I'm going to move my Backyard Ballistics links resource to the end of the topic. To start the process I need to "pick up" the resource. I click on the move icon:

  3. This causes two things to happen. Firstly, the resource I want to move disappears. Don't worry, imagine you have it in your hand and you are ready to place it back into your course. Secondly, the boxes that have now appeared represent all the places you can move the resource you are holding to:

  4. Choose where you want to move the resource to. I want my list of links at the end so I'm going to click on the box at the bottom. The boxes disappear and my resources have been shuffled:

What just happened?

A list of resources in Moodle isn't simply a list of files, such as you would find on a shared drive. One obvious difference is that in Moodle you can arrange your resources to be listed in the order...