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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 – inserting a question page


  1. Click on Add a page... and this time select Question at the bottom of the list.

  2. Choose the type of question you want to add by selecting from the drop-down list. I want to add a True/false question so:

  3. Regardless of question type, we need to give our page a title and provide some content.

  4. That done, we need to configure the question that appears at the bottom of the page. For my True/False question, that entails providing two sets of answers and responses. Note that I've given the "I agree" response a score of 1. You can probably guess that this will be important later on:

  5. And that's it. You can see that you can jump to different pages depending on how the question was answered but, again, I'm not going to worry about that just yet. So we're done for now. Press the Save page button at the bottom of the page.

What just happened?

I've just added a simple question page to my lesson, a True/False question I'm asking my students to confirm that they agree...