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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 dynamic tabs


Name

Topics Tabs

Weekly Tabs

Module type

Course format

Author

Amr Hourani

Released

2008

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English (but should work in any language)

Compliance

Uses JQuery JavaScript/Ajax library instead of standard YUI library

Documentation

None

Errors

Not all necessary strings translated

Using these course formats, course page topics or weeks can be displayed under tabs. Clicking on a tab causes the page to scroll to the desired section.

Getting ready

Uncompress both the topicstabs and weekstabs directories to the /moodle/course/format/ directory. You do not need to visit the Notifications page to install these course formats.

The topicstabs format is distributed in a rar file, so you may need a standalone compression program to extract this new format directory.

How to do it...

Click on the Settings link from the course Administration menu and choose the Topics Tabs format, then save the settings.

The Topics Tabs format takes each topic, including...