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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 – creating student groups


  1. Return to the course front page. Click on the Groups link in the Settings block under Course administration, then Users:

  2. Press the Create group button:

  3. Give your group a name and, optionally a description (more on this shortly).

  4. You can optionally specify a picture to represent the group (again, more on this in a moment).

  5. When you are done press the Save changes button. Your new group is now added to the list of available groups (the number in brackets after the group name indicates how many users are in it):

What just happened?

We've just created a new group, albeit so far with no one in it. As with most things in Moodle you aren't committing yourself when you specify configuration settings. When configuring groups there are usually two settings that I return to once the group has some members:

  • I start leaving the group description blank and then ask the group, when they first get together, how they would like to describe themselves. If the course...