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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

Finding a course by name


Name

Quick Course List

Module type

Block

Author

Mike Worth

Released

2009

Maintained

Yes (there's not much to it)

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

None

Errors

None

If you have a site with many courses, then searching for a course can sometimes be a challenge. The Quick Course List block offers a solution. As a user types into the search box, it tries to match the search string with substrings of the course titles and course short titles of all courses on a site.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory and visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

This block is designed to work only on the site root page.

The block will list all matching courses on the site, even if the user is not involved in the course. Because of this, access to the block is limited. Only users with a role that includes permission to see the block will see it; by default this includes administrators, course creators and...