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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 – getting your videos to play in Moodle


  1. Ensure you are using one of the common video file formats (see previous discussion).

  2. Ensure your link is set up correctly. Try clicking on the link to ensure that your computer's video player can play your video. Links can be accidentally broken as you are editing text, so we can try re-linking the video. To break a link before you start again, press the Editor's Remove link button:

  3. Once the old link has been removed (the text will revert to its default color and formatting); follow the steps outlined in Turning text into a web link to put the link back in.

  4. If you have reached this final step and the video player still isn't being displayed then it looks like Moodle isn't configured the way we need it to be. Check out Ask the Admin section at the end of this chapter.

Have a go hero – do more with your videos

You could obviously have a Moodle web page with just a video in it, but that isn't very exciting. In the previous example, I've included...