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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 and using the Messages block


  1. Remember to make sure that editing is turned on. Click Add... in the Blocks block. Select Messages from the list. The Messages block is now added to your course front page:

  2. I've got a message from Jill Brown. Clicking on the envelope displays the message dialog, where I can view her message and respond to it if I want to (clicking on her name only displays Jill's profile).

  3. If I want to send a message then click on Messages... The messages screen is displayed listing my incoming messages. Click on the name of the sender to view the message:

What just happened?

We've just added the Messages block to the course front page to make messaging between participants much easier. Students may not want to post to a forum or join in a chat room, but now we are converting our courses to Moodle, we want communication between learners to be as straightforward as possible.

Managing your contacts

In this last section we look at how you can manage your...