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Moodle 1.9 Math

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Moodle 1.9 Math

Overview of this book

Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges. The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You'll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle. Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Math
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Configuring your course


I've uploaded a past paper in my Moodle course, and I've included a forum to allow us to discuss issues arising from that past paper online. How about exploring a couple of more important course configuration options? Again, I'm not going to go into too much detail regarding reconfiguring a course, but I will quickly direct you to three important settings.

  1. 1. Return to your course's front page and look for the Settings option in the course Administration block:

  2. 2. On the Edit course settings page, we can change the course name, and we can also change the short name. However, before you do, it might be worth checking with your Moodle Administrator, in case the students are being automatically enrolled in your course:

  3. 3. Summarize your course in the Summary box. The course summary is displayed whenever the course is listed:

  4. 4. If you want to change your course format from displaying weeks to topics, then you need to click on the Format drop-down menu:

  5. 5. To change the number of weeks or topics in your course, click on the Number of weeks/topics drop-down menu.

  6. 6. When you are happy with the new settings, scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button. Your course will be reconfigured accordingly: