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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

Completion tracking


There are two parts to completion tracking:

  1. Completing a resource or activity

  2. Completing the course

Let's configure our Moodle course so that when students themselves consider that they are ready to move on from a resource or activity, they can mark it as "completed".

Note

At the time of writing, the completion tracking feature is disabled by default. You'll need to ask your Moodle administrator to enable this functionality for you. See the Ask the admin section at the end of this chapter.

Return to your Moodle course main page and in the Settings block, under Course administration, click on Edit settings. Scroll down to the Student progress section. Click on the Completion tracking drop-down menu and select Enabled, control via completion and activity settings from the list:

I'm not going to enforce course (rather than activity—we'll come on to that shortly) completion tracking on my course, put simply; mine isn't that kind of course. There are, however, good examples...