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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

Searching for users


Name

Quickfind User List

Module type

Block

Author

Mike Worth

Released

2009

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

None displayed

The phone rings—it's a student with a question about the course. You want to quickly look up the student's profile and check their activity. To achieve this you have to go to the participants list, and because there you have a large number of students, they don't all fit on the same screen, so narrow down the search by name or skip from page to page. Eventually you get to a page containing the student's name; you have to scroll and visually search until you find the student's name. Once the name is found, you can click to show the student's profile. So a simple, quick search for a profile can take 30 seconds.

The Quickfind User List block allows you to track down a student, or any user associated with a course, quickly. Just start typing and the block matches users on the...