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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 a forum


  1. In the topic you want to add a forum to, click on the Add an activity... list (if you don't see this option then check that you have editing turned on). Select Forum from the list:

  2. Leave the Forum type as Standard forum for general use. There's more on the different types of forum later in this chapter.

  3. Give your new forum a name and a brief introduction:

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save and display button. And that's it, we're done:

What just happened?

Following these simple instructions we now have a new forum in our course, where students can discuss what they think made last year's poster project such a winner. I appreciate that there are a few configuration options I've missed out, but remember that our task is to get our course up and running with the minimum of fuss.

Subscribing to forums

I'm expecting my forum to be quite active but I don't want to have to remember to log into Moodle to check to see whether there are any...