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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

Forums


In Chapter 6, Managing Student Work you worked with me in creating a new, hidden topic for my course project work. I thought it would be great to upload to Moodle a project exemplar and allow students to discuss what they thought were the strengths in that work. It's something I already do in the class, but doing this online means:

  • Students can take their time to study the example work and formulate an answer without the pressure of being sat in a classroom. Students who can be shy in the classroom don't always feel the same social pressure online.

  • Forum posts can be kept as long as you wish (even when the student who posted has left) so student responses are always available for reference. A good argument or idea is kept online for students to refer back to.

  • We can hold more than one discussion at a time online. When we are online we can cover more topics more easily.

  • Forum posts can be edited or deleted for only a relatively short period after they are made (which is somewhat different...