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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 – telling students when we're around


  1. If you are on the course front page then click on the update icon next to your chat room. If you are on the chat room page then select Edit settings under Chat administration in the Settings block.

  2. Scroll down the Editing chat page until you see the chat time settings (in the General box):

  3. I initially configured the chat room to publish chat times (you can see the effect in previous screenshots). I want to have the same chat time every Monday at lunchtime, so:

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save and return to course button. And that's it. We're done.

What just happened?

We've just specified when we are going to be around for a chat, but how are students going to know? One way is to check out the Upcoming events block on the course front page (usually on the right-hand side of the course main page):

Try clicking on the Go to calendar... link in the block. The course calendar is displayed:

You can see what a great tool...