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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

Creating quizzes


Creating a quiz in Moodle is a two-stage process. First, we add our questions to the question bank (each course has its own question bank). Once we've added questions to the question bank, we can add a quiz activity to the course and then choose questions to add to it from the question bank. What are the advantages of having a two-stage process? I worked in much the same way creating quizzes before I started with Moodle. My bookshelf of math books was my question bank, and I would take questions from there to add into my quizzes. Here are just a few of the advantages:

  • If there is a particular point you want to reinforce, then it's easy to include the same question in different quizzes throughout your course.

  • It's easy to share your questions with other Moodle courses. For example, questions on the Pythagorean Theorem are relevant to pure math, mechanics, engineering, and physics.

  • Questions can be exported from and imported into the question bank. This means converting questions...