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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 formulae easily


Name

DragMath Equation editor

Module type

Integration

Author

Marc Grober

Released

2008

Maintained

Actively

Languages

Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Compliance

Not a regular module

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

None displayed (if you can get TeX notation filtering running)

If you want to include formulae on your site, this can be achieved by turning on the TeX notation filter, which can convert TeX syntax to a rendered image. However, if you are not familiar with TeX and its syntax, this might be a difficult way to create a simple equation. Even if you do know TeX, the syntax can be tricky and erroneous syntax will not be rendered correctly. A tool that can assist in producing syntactically correct notation may be helpful to you.

The DragMath editor is a Java Applet that can be launched from the HTML editor in Moodle. It assists...