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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

Identifying people


Name

My peers

Module type

Block

Author

Étienne Rozé

Released

2009

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English, French, Hebrew

Compliance

OK

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

Warnings displayed with error reporting turned on.

The My peers block was originally called the My Teachers block. The block can still be used to show details of teachers to students, but with the advent of Moodle's new flexible role system, the block can now be used to identify people involved in a course, based on many different relationships.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

When installed, an instance of the block can be added to a course page by turning editing on and choosing "My peers" from the Blocks menu.

By default, the block is designed to show a list of teachers and their details to students. If this is all you want the block to do, you don't have to configure the block...