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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

Including YouTube videos


Do you want to include a video in your course? There is a plethora of video sharing websites available (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_sharing_websites, but the most popular has to be YouTube. There are dozens of Pythagoras-related videos on YouTube, and one that always keeps my classes entertained is Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem by Mister Teacher (also known as John Pearson) from learnmegood.com:

The problem I have is that, although I can get access to YouTube at school, my students can't (my staff login is different from a student account). How do we overcome that problem? The best way is to extract the video from YouTube and upload it to our course files area. We can then link to it and have Moodle embed a video player, just as it did with its own audio player in the previous section. Here's how to achieve this using Keepvid.com:

Note

Your Moodle admin will need to enable the FLV filter in the multimedia plugin to have Moodle...