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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 – embedding an audio clip


  1. Choose a topic you want to add your audio file to and from the Add a resource… list choose Page.

  2. I've got an audio file all about the history of rockets that I'd like to include. Firstly, I'm going to add a short piece of introductory text "Listen to this program all about rockets…".

  3. Then, I'm going to use the Moodle Media button to insert my audio file. See Time For Action – Embed a video into a Moodle Page for details on how to use the Insert/edit embedded media dialog. I'm going to use the File picker to upload my audio file and then select it. When you are done. click on the Insert button.

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the Editing Resource page and press the Save and return to course button.

  5. Click on the link to the new Moodle web page from your course front page. Moodle will have embedded an audio player into your web page:

What Just happened?

Embedding an audio file is much the same as embedding a video file. Again, as with video, having Moodle...