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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

Playing audio


There are three ways to include audio in Moodle, just as there are three ways to include video:

  1. Include a link to the audio file in your course front page.

  2. Embed the audio file in a Moodle web page—which, just as with video, requires multimedia filters to be enabled by your administrator.

  3. Upload the audio to an audio sharing website and stream the file from there.

    Tip

    You have possibly found, as you experimented with including videos in your course, that not all school and college computers, for understandable reasons, have got audio enabled (some schools even go so far as to snip the wires to the headphone socket). As you work through the following guide to embedding audio, remember that if there isn't any sound coming out of the speaker holes or the headphone socket speak to your technician or help desk. That your computer is silent may well be intentional.

Choosing an audio file format

Always convert to one of the common audio file formats. As with video file formats (see the...