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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 active forums


Name

Active Forums

Module type

Block

Author

Siau Meng Nyam

Released

2010

Maintained

Actively (it's quite new)

Languages

English, Hebrew

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Help files

Errors

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Forums are the staple form of asynchronous communication in Moodle. Discussion forums in general have been proven to have benefits for learners; however, one of the difficulties in using forums is luring students to participate.

The Active Forums block shows discussion activity in the form of a tag cloud. The titles of discussions that are more active appear larger and bolder; less active forums appear diminutively. The intention is to involve students in conversations that are currently active in the course.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

Once installed, you can leave the default settings and let the block inform students of active discussions....