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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 – adding a wiki


  1. In the Teacher Documentation topic, click on Add an activity... and select Wiki from the list.

  2. The name of my new wiki is going to be Backyard Ballistics Guidelines. Enter a name for your wiki.

  3. Write a brief summary of the wiki. This is shown above every page. Keep it short and descriptive.

  4. Choose a name for the first page of your wiki (my first page is going to be the contents).

  5. Ensure the Wiki mode is set to Collaborative wiki (meaning that everyone has equal editing rights but remember that we have hidden the topic that it's in):

  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save and return to course button.

What just happened?

You now have a link from your course to a new, empty wiki—but you still need your documentation in it.

Click on the link to your new wiki on the course front page. We are now ready to create the first page in our wiki. Ensure you have HTML format selected and press the Create page button:

Let's start developing the wiki by creating...