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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

Creating questions for our quiz


Let's watch Andy make a couple of questions, one to a page, to get the idea:

Click Add a question

This brings up a list of question types to choose from:

Select a question type and click Next at the bottom:

Add question details

The next screen allows us to ask the question, provide feedback to the user and wherever required correct and incorrect answers. This is not so different from creating questions in the earlier Quiz version, although we now have the advantage of the tinyMCE text editor we looked at in Chapter 3, Editing Text and Adding Files. What is new however, is the ability to "tag" a question:

Our course teacher, Andy, can add tags relating to this question and if the Tags block is added to the course, these key terms will appear.

Note

Andy's not the Moodle admin and so he can't add an Official tag which can be made available site wide, but if there is an official tag, it will appear in the top box.

Adding more questions

Once we've hit Save changes we...