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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. 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 video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a web page


  1. Return to your course front page and make sure you have editing turned on.

  2. In the topic you want to add your new web page into, click on Add a resource... and select Page from the list.

  3. Give the new web page a name and specify a description.

  4. Copy and paste the text from the original document into the new web page (the "Page content" area).

  5. At the bottom of the page, press the Save and display button.

What just happened?

We can convert documents into a web page. This only really works for smaller documents, and is very useful if documents change quite frequently as it saves you having to download it, change it, save it, and then upload it again. The other obvious benefit is that students will be able to read it without having to install any additional software.

Tip

Don't make this mistake: cutting and pasting images doesn't work

Remember that images must be uploaded to Moodle (to My private files or via a repository) and then included in your web page using...