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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

Math teaching resources


A quick search of the Internet reveals a wealth of interactive resources you can include in your Moodle courses. One good place to start your search is Moodle.org itself. For example, http://docs.moodle.org/en/Mathematics lists a few examples of Java applets that can be used to support mathematics teaching (more on Java applets later in this section).

The resources you find on the Internet fall roughly into three categories:

  • Resources you can link to: You provide a link to the resource from your Moodle course. If the person owning the resource moves it (or deletes it completely), then your link is broken and students can no longer access it.

  • Resources you can include in your Moodle course: You upload a resource to your course, meaning you don't have to worry if someone else has moved or deleted it.

  • Resources students can download to their computer: It doesn't matter where the resource originates because it ends up on your students' computers.

Let's look at examples...