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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses. By including multimedia, such as animated graphics, bitmaps, photographs, and videos in your Moodle site, you can enhance the enjoyment of your site's users and sustain their attention.</p> <p>Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course &ndash; ideal if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your Moodle course.</p> <p>Go beyond your normal use of Moodle and make your courses really attractive! This cookbook will give you inspiration and teach you to do things you never knew were possible. Link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs to illustrate your lessons. Learn to resize and convert images to the most appropriate formats for Moodle courses, interactive documents, and e-Portfolios. Work with animated graphics to create engaging activities and learn the most complex topics related to formats, compression, bitmaps, and vector graphics while following steps in these simple recipes.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Designing an interactive pie chart with labels


In this recipe, we work with an interactive chart, which is to be created after conducting a survey on our students. Therefore, our first step is to design a survey in our Moodle course.

How to do it...

We design an activity to ask our students to vote in order to create the interactive pie chart. We create the activity in a choice so that students can choose their favorite type of computer games. Afterwards, we draw the interactive chart with the results.

Choose the weekly outline section where you want to add the activity. These are the steps that you are going to follow:

  1. Click on Add an activity | Choice.

  2. Complete the Choice name and Introduction text blocks.

  3. Complete the Options blocks.

  4. Complete the Restrict answering to this time period, Miscellaneous Settings, and Common module settings blocks, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click on Save and return to course.

How it works...

Students click on the activity and vote. The way that this activity...