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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 – including a glossary


  1. Ensuring that editing is turned on, choose the topic you want to add your glossary to, click on Add an activity... and select Glossary from the list.

  2. You need to give your glossary a name and describe its purpose. Mine is a glossary of ballistics-related terms to help you as you work through the course. In the description, I'm also going to mention that anyone can add to this glossary.

  3. We can leave the rest of the glossary configuration settings set to the default, but if you want to experiment with them, remember that you won't break anything. When you are happy with the settings, press the Save and display button. Your new glossary is now ready to have entries added to it:

What just happened?

We've just completed adding a glossary to our course—a Secondary glossary that everyone can add entries too, and I've also configured it so that entries can be rated by everyone.

How do you add entries into the glossary?