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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

How can students track their progress?


As we've followed Stuart round studying how he sets up his course tasks, we've noticed in the Activity completion section a drop-down called Completion tracking. If this setting is turned on by admin, it's where the teacher decides what will prompt Moodle to class the student's activity as "complete" so they can view their progress with check marks at the side. Let's take a look now at this dropdown and the effect it has on a student's course page.

The completion tracking options

This menu has three options, as we can see in the next screenshot:

  • Do not indicate activity completion: This will not display a check and students will not be able to gauge their progress.

  • Users can manually mark the activity as completed: This puts the onus on the student to keep track of their progress by checking when they feel they are done with an activity.

  • Show activity as complete when conditions are met: This is where Moodle automatically shows the task as completed once...