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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 question to the question bank


  1. On the course front page, click on Question bank in the Settings block. Your course Question bank is displayed.

  2. Click on the Create a new question button and on the Choose a question type to add dialog select True/False and press Next.

  3. Give the question a name.

    Tip

    Be careful naming your question...

    This question is going into a question bank. Don't call it '1', or 'a' because we aren't adding this question to a quiz just yet, and we don't know where in the quiz it will be. We need to give the question a name that's meaningful to us—and to our colleagues if we choose to share our questions later on.

  4. In the Question textbox, you need to write the question you are going to ask. See that we are using the HTML editor to edit the question. That means that we can include all of the ideas and techniques that we've learned so far to make the text of a question just that little bit more interesting:

  5. Scroll down to the Correct answer setting and...