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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

Chapter 5. Moodle Makeover

We have come a long way over the first five chapters. We've got all of our resources uploaded into Moodle, and in the previous chapter we saw just how easy it is to move from static, text, and image-based resources to turning our courses into a complete multimedia experience. In fact, you could almost invite students in now and I'm sure they would be impressed with the results of our work so far.

Because we've been working so hard, and before we move on to the second half of the book and look at converting our quizzes and student projects, let's take a break to look at techniques that build on what we have learned and achieved so far, techniques to make a Moodle course even more absorbing and fun. Reworking and rearranging the resources and improving the presentation will definitely improve the functionality and ease of use. In this chapter we shall:

  • Do more than make each topic a long list of resources. Use the label resource and Moodle's indenting tool to change...