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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 – configuring conditional activities


  1. With editing turned on, click on the Update icon next to the Firing a bullet from a gun resource.

  2. Scroll down to the Restrict access section (note that this section is only available if the conditional activities feature is switched on in your Moodle):

  3. From the Activity completion condition drop-down menu, I'm going to choose Sources of Energy, which "must be marked complete":

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save and return to course button.

  5. We can see that access to the Firing a bullet from a gun resource is now restricted:

What just happened?

I've just configured access to a resource to be conditional on having viewed another resource. As you can imagine, there are a myriad of ways of configuring conditional activities so I thought it best to show you the simplest kind of controlling access—meaning you can't do A without attempting B.

Notice that you can configure more than one condition – meaning you can't access...