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Moodle 2.0 First Look

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Moodle 2.0 First Look

Overview of this book

Moodle is currently the world's most popular E-learning platform. The long-awaited second version of Moodle is now available and brings with it greatly improved functionality. If you are planning to upgrade your site to Moodle 2.0 and want to be up-to-date with the latest developments, then this book is for you.This book takes an in-depth look at all of the major new features in Moodle 2.0 and how it differs from previous Moodle versions. It highlights changes to the standard installation and explains the new features with clear screenshots, so you can quickly take full advantage of Moodle 2.0. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Moodle 2.0, and will give you the confidence to make the move up to Moodle 2.0, either as an administrator or a course teacher.With its step-by-step introduction to the new features of Moodle 2.0, this book will leave you confident and keen to get your own courses up and running on Moodle 2.0. It will take you on a journey from basic navigation to advanced administration, looking at the changes in resource management and activity setup along the way. It will show you new ways tutors and students can control the pace of their learning and introduce you to the numerous possibilities for global sharing and collaborating now available in Moodle 2.0
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Named topic sections


A brand new and very welcome feature of Moodle 2.0 which we have just encountered is the ability to name topic sections (if your course is set to topics) and have those names reflected in the links in the navigation bar. If we do nothing, then Topic 0 is called General and the other topics are displayed as numbers like Topic 2, but the ability to name them makes moving around much more user-friendly.

Let's take a quick look at how to name topic sections as this makes a significant difference to the appearance of our Navigation block. Stuart's going to name Topic 2 so he turns on the editing in the usual way and clicks on the edit icon next to the number 2 as he normally would:

  1. He unchecks the use default section name box.

  2. He then types in his own chosen topic name as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. This ensures that this name is reflected in the link in the Navigation block, instead of the numbered topic:

Note

If the course is in weekly sections, then the weeks display...