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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

Organizing tree-based content


Name

Topicstree course format

Module type

Course format

Author

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)

Released

2008

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English, Spanish (but should work in any language)

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation, readme.txt

Errors

None

This course format allows you to compact topics down by utilizing the structure of nested items.

Getting ready

Unzip the module's source directory to /moodle/course/format/. Once copied, you can use the format straight away.

How to do it...

Once added, the format can be chosen from the Settings page. Click Settings in the course's Administration block. You will find the Topics Tree format listed as one of the course formats.

After selecting the Topics Tree format, save the course settings. You will not see any change if you have editing turned on. Turn editing off to see the effect of the format.

Activities and resources under each topic should be listed as a tree. If all the items in the topic...