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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about enhancing our teaching using some of the more advanced Moodle modules.

Specifically, we covered:

  • How to convert a test to a Moodle quiz using the quiz activity. We learned how each course has its own question bank, and that including a quiz on our course involves adding questions to the question bank and then adding questions from the question bank into our quiz. That way we can reuse questions easily—and easily share questions with our colleagues.

  • How to convert role-playing games, quandaries, and scenarios over to Moodle using the lesson activity. Lessons can take some time to set up, so it is often best to use them to support classroom-based teaching.

  • Allowing students to collaborate online with project work using the wiki activity. We saw how the wiki system makes creating new pages fast and easy. We also learned that you can specify a template: useful if there are forms for students to fill in and you want to provide a guide.

  • Setting up an...