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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Overview of this book

Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Host a proctored, timed test from a secure location


Moodle enables you to restrict the location from which a quiz can be accessed. This is especially useful for a proctored quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz.

This is done with the Require network address setting as shown:

Only computers that are located in this specified network address can access the quiz.

Different kinds of network addresses

You can specify different kinds of network addresses. Each is explained in forthcoming sections.

Full IP addresses

This is the simplest option. Every computer connected directly to the Internet has a unique identifier, called its IP address. Please note the use of the phrase "directly connected" is deliberate and I'll explain it further. A full IP address specifies a single computer, router, printer, or other device on the Internet.

An IP address is specified by writing four numbers, separated by decimal points, like this: 255.255.255.255...