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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 – adding the calendar


  1. Return to your course front page and with editing turned on, click on Add... in the Blocks block. Then select Calendar:

  2. A calendar is now added to your course front page. You can reposition it either by using the move icon:

    Or, if instead of the arrows you see crosshairs, then by clicking on the block and dragging it.

  3. Once you've got the calendar where you want it (I like to have the Calendar block and the Upcoming events block next to each other) then you're done.

What just happened?

Calendars are great tools for letting students know what's about to happen on your course, and we've just learned how to add a mini-calendar onto our course front pages.

The course event shown on the calendar previously (I can tell it's a course event because the background is pink) is to indicate that I am going to be in the Poster Presentation chat room at 1:00 pm. If I hover the mouse pointer over the 7th July, I see this:

Have a go hero – calendar events

In Chapter 5, Moodle...