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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

SCORM


You may well have come across SCORM resources and not realized it. Commercial content producers are providing online resources and activities as SCORM objects. For example, the very popular—and free—Fling the Teacher from ContentGenerator.net allows you to export the Fling the Teacher game in SCORM format. The idea is that the SCORM content will work regardless of which VLE you happen to be using. So, what is SCORM?

SCORM actually stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model, and it's a technical standard telling authors how their content should be structured so that VLEs can display it without any hassle. The great thing is that the standard also describes how a student's progress through the activities and quiz results can be published to the VLE. This means that Moodle can remember how far a student has progressed, and the results of any tests built into a SCORM object can be included in the course grade book.

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