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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 – rating forum posts


  1. We need to reconfigure our forum to allow us to rate posts. If you have returned to the course front page then click on the update icon next to your new forum:

  2. If you haven't left your forum main page then, in the Settings block, click on Edit settings under Forum administration:

  3. On the Editing forum page, scroll down to the Grade box. Select how you want posts to be graded from the aggregate type list. Grades given to posts are used to give students an overall grade for the forum activity. The options should be self-explanatory.

  4. Select the grading scale you want to use. You can use a custom grading method if you want to (see the Time for action – create a custom grade scale section in Chapter 6, Managing Student Work). I'm going to allow a rating out of 10.

  5. Finally, if you want to keep students focused on the particular posts, you can restrict grading to a certain date range. You'll find these settings at the bottom of the Grade box.

  6. And that's it. We're...