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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

Summary


In this chapter, we investigated two popular eLearning technologies: SCORM and Flash. Materials produced by commercial publishers are provided in SCORM or Flash format because they want to be sure that they will work in all VLEs. We also learned how we can create our own SCORM and Flash activities. Specifically, we covered the following topics:

  • How to include SCORM materials in our Moodle courses and how SCORM activities are recorded in the course grade book.

  • How to create our own SCORM activities using both free and commercial tools. These tools can provide an efficient way of converting our current teaching materials over to Moodle.

  • What Flash is and how to incorporate Flash games and activities into our courses.

After exploring how to present information to our students and beginning to look at quizzes and tests in SCORM packages, let's move on to learning how we can use Moodle to set math-specific quizzes, which is the subject of the next chapter.