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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


We have spent the first half of this book learning about Moodle and seeing how we can take the resources we've been using and import them into our Moodle course. We've come across many different techniques we can use to achieve this, and we've used this chapter to spend a little extra time practising and reinforcing the ideas we have learned in this book so far.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Arranging resources within topics to make topics look more visually appealing. We used the Label resource as the glue to holds resources together.

  • We took a comprehensive look at tips and tricks we can use to make our courses more engaging for students.

  • We included an animated character using Voki.com—more practice at using embeddable code. Other free, animated characters are available (e.g. http://gizmoz.com).

  • We used an HTML block to provide a welcome message to our students.

We've covered converting the so-called "static" elements of a taught course from the classroom to the computer. But my teaching...