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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 the gradebook


  1. Assuming you are still on the same page, press the Add category button:

  2. Give your category a name. I'm going to call mine "Marks for practical".

  3. Press the Show Advanced button. You will see a few extra settings appear. I'm not going to worry about them now, but feel free to investigate. Remember: you won't break anything and you can always refer to Moodle Docs for guidance.

  4. When you are done press the Save changes button.

  5. I'm now going to repeat the process and create a category called "Marks for Moodle activities". My tree of categories and items now looks like this:

  6. Using the move icon (or by clicking and dragging, depending on how your site is set up) I can then move the Moodle activities under the "Marks for Moodle activities" category in just the same way as we can shuffle activities and resources about in a Moodle course. Here's how my tree looks now:

    Now I can start adding grade items for the practical work the students are going to undertake...