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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

Encouraging blogging


Name

Latest Blog Entries

Module type

Block

Author

Ludo (Marc Alier), Fernando Oliveira

Released

2006

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

None available

Errors

None displayed

Blogs are a great way of encouraging students to reflect on their learning. Personal blogs in a Moodle site can be shared and read by other users, regardless of course. One of the main reasons people write blog entries is so that their words can be read by others. However, apart from viewing personal blogs through users' profiles, there is not a simple way of announcing user's blog entries on course pages.

The Latest Blog Entries block promotes the blogs of course participants by advertising their latest postings. This block seems to have been abandoned by the original author, but another developer has released an updated version of the block which you will find attached to the original Modules and plugins database entry for this block. This review...