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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

Creating a game in a block


This section is not a review of a contributed Moodle module; instead it is a quick guide to adding a game in a block in Moodle.

Getting ready

Find a free Flash game on the web and save it to your computer.

How to do it...

Copy the Flash game file to the Files area of your course in Moodle. Get the web path to the file by right-clicking on the file's name and copying the location of the file.

Go back to the course main page and add an HTML block from the Blocks menu.

Click on the configuration icon for the block. The configuration page for the block will appear as follows:

You can add a title for the block, but leaving it blank will omit the unnecessary block header (when editing is turned off).

In the WYSIWYG editor, switch to HTML source mode, by clicking the button on the bottom row of icons, second from the right, with a < > symbol on it.

Add the following HTML, replacing the URL http://localhost/moodle/file.php/2/invaders.swf with the URL of your Flash game file...