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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

Where's our file on the front page?


Let's go back to the File Picker and see if we can locate that pdf which Martin just uploaded. It's here that we start to understand the differences between the New Way and the Old Way. This time we don't want the Upload this file… link as our pdf is already on Moodle.

If Martin clicks on Recent files he sees the file he's just uploaded, as shown in the following screenshot:

If he clicks on Server files he has an alternative view, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

If you don't like the icon view, you can click the View as list tab instead

This view is quite different from the course files of the older version. Every section on the Front page (or any course as we'll see) has its own dedicated folder. Our pdf was uploaded and linked to in a section summary at the very top of our Moodle front page. So we'd need to look in the Course section summaries.

Let's click into the folder Course section summaries and locate it:

If we click into the folder numbered...