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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 – splitting a discussion


  1. Choose the topic you want to split the discussion at and click on Split:

  2. Choose a new name for the discussion thread; I'm going to call mine "Nuclear power: Is the poster balanced?". When you've chosen a new title press the Split button.

  3. You've now created a new discussion thread, and both discussions are now much easier to follow:

What just happened?

Managing forums in Moodle is all about making discussions easy to follow, and easy to refer back to later on. But we've just seen how managing discussions is very easy. It's one of the advantages of moving your courses online.

Now we've learned pretty much all there is to know about Moodle's Standard forum for general use. But that kind of forum doesn't fit every kind of discussion or debate you might want to hold online. But that's no problem because Moodle provides four different flavors of forum.

Types of forum

So far we've been using a Standard forum for general use, and most of the time that will suit...