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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 – create groupings


  1. Return to the course front page and click on Groups under Course administration, then Users in the Settings block.

  2. Do you see a Groupings tab at the top of the Groups page?

  3. If not then you need to speak to your Moodle administrator (refer to the Ask the admin section following on from this one). If you do then click on it.

  4. Press the Create grouping button.

  5. Give the grouping a name and, optionally, a description.

  6. Press the Save changes button.

  7. We have now created a grouping, but there aren't yet any groups in it:

  8. Click on the show groups in grouping icon:

  9. Select the group you want to add into the grouping from the Potential members list. Then press the Add button:

  10. When you are done press the Back to groupings button.

    Now I'm going to return to the forum I just created and press the Update this forum button to go back to the Editing forum page.

  11. Once you are back to the Editing forum page, scroll down the page to the Common module settings box. Click on the Show...