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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

Converting projects and assignments


Earlier in this book, I introduced you to the four ways an out-of-the-box Moodle provides for managing student work online. Recall that there are four types of assignment activity, and they will match any kind of project that you are likely to set your students. As we did in that Chapter 5, Moodle Makeover, turn editing on, go to any topic and click on the Add an activity list. In this list, you will see the four different assignment types Moodle supports. They are:

  • Offline activity: If your student projects can't be uploaded into Moodle because the student submission isn't electronic (just like my poster project) then you can manage grades and your notes on the students' work using this kind of assignment type.

  • Online text: Students are going to be creating the assignment submission using the text editor built into Moodle. That's the one we've been using to create our course so far.

  • Upload a single file: Students can only upload one file. That's the activity...