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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

Differentiating with conditional activities


We've seen how Stuart can control the learning path of the students on the Beginners' French course by making use of the new feature in Moodle known as Conditional Activities. We've also seen how students can track their progress with checkmarks at the side of each task.

With some imaginative use of Conditional Activities, teachers could allow students to select and branch out into different learning paths according to preferences or grade results. Once the student has set off, they don't then see the alternative paths and other tasks their classmates might be attempting. This can already be done in Moodle by using the grouping facility. Using Conditional Activities is just another means to the same end. You can find more suggestions for this in the Moodle docs http://docs.moodle.org/en/Conditional_activities#Tricks_and_techniques

Here are two suggestions for using Conditional Activities to differentiate, the first in Stuart's Beginners' French course...