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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

Wiki


I first showed you the Moodle wiki in Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts when we saw that you could convert departmental documentation over to Moodle. Wiki is Hawaiian for "quick". People often hear the word wiki and think that a wiki has to be an online encyclopedia (for that, Wikipedia has a lot to answer for). But that simply isn't the case. Wikis were designed to:

  • Allow users to work on web pages collaboratively

    and

  • Create web pages quickly (hence the name)

If you are going to collaborate with others on a web page then there must be some sort of audit trail, so you can tell who made what change and when. That's no problem: a system for doing so is already built into Moodle's wiki system. To allow you to create web pages quickly, Moodle's wiki system has it's own built-in formatting language for you to use. But don't let the thought of that put you off. As you'll see in this section, the formatting is very simple.

What are my wiki options

Even though there is one wiki system built...