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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

Making a Moodle 2.0 Wiki


Moodle's wiki has always been a very popular tool amongst students of all ages. In my own experience I have seen it used with primary school children as a means for collective story-telling and also in teenage students as an individual online exercise book. Teams of tutors have collaborated on wikis to share teaching ideas for their classes or design departmental schemes of work.

The new Wiki for Moodle 2.0 takes some elements from NWiki, a popular alternative to Moodle's default. Let's take a look at a wiki our teacher Andy made to encourage students to share experiences of different types of self-help methods. The initial setup looks like this:

  • First page name*: This is offered us as our first page when the wiki is saved (see later)

  • Wiki Mode: We can choose between Collaborative Wiki (as here where everyone may edit) or Individual Wiki (where each student edits their own)

  • Default format: We can choose between the following markups:

    • HTML the default and the one...