In this chapter, we will be looking at taking our current resources and converting them over to Moodle. There have been plenty of books written on how to take your current resources and convert them over to Moodle (I've written one: Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide, ISBN 13 978-1-847195-24-1 by Packt Publishing). Because this book is dedicated to math teaching, I'm going to concentrate on the kinds of resources we math teachers usually have. They usually come in two flavors. The first are the "static" resources: PowerPoint presentations, documents provided by publishers (such as resources provided on a CD-ROM at the back of a textbook or downloadable from the publisher's website). In this chapter, we'll focus on these static resources. Again, those are the resources math teachers and lecturers usually like to convert to Moodle. The other type of resources are "interactive" resources. We'll be investigating these in later chapters.
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