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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Introduction


Teaching can be a rewarding profession, but too often it is monotonous drudgery. Tools that can make a teacher more effective are always welcome.

In this chapter, we reveal a number of blocks designed to improve the lot of humble teachers; the people working at the coal-face, with their nose to the grindstone and their ear to the ground. Yeah—those guys.

Sharing and cloning activities and resources

From week-to-week and course-to-course, a lot of activities and resources need to be created and many will be quite similar to what has been created before. In Moodle, each new activity and resource has to be created from scratch, and copying the settings and formatting from one item to the next is tedious. But there is a block that facilitates the cloning of activities and resources, between topics and weeks, and across courses:

  • Sharing Cart block

Quickly searching for users

Each student (and user) has a profile in a Moodle system. For students, this is accompanied by information about...