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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

Quiz


When I'm teaching my Backyard Ballistics course, I often bombard students with questions as I am going along—to gauge understanding, to re-enforce topics specific to particular learning goals, or simply as entertainment. Then I set a final test, to ensure that what I have been teaching has sunk in.

So why should I convert my quick-fire quizzes and final tests to Moodle? Because by doing so I can address two problems:

  • Managing my questions:

    I keep a bank of questions I've thought of in Word documents, one for each subject I teach. I also have other documents containing questions my students have written themselves for my class competitions: I often split the class into two teams and get each team to quiz the other—and often student's questions are much more challenging and incisive than mine!

  • Marking tests: marking quizzes and tests takes up a lot of my valuable time.

Converting quizzes to Moodle is a two-step process. The first task is to upload my questions to Moodle. Then, once questions...