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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 welcome message


  1. Making sure you've got editing turned on, scroll down the course main page and look for the Add a block block, usually under the last block on the right-hand side of the page:

  2. Click on Add... and select HTML from the list. Moodle will add a new HTML block to the page:

  3. To configure the new HTML block, click on the configuration icon:

  4. And you're taken to the Configuring a (new HTML block) block page. Give your new block a title and then add in your content. When you're done, press the Save changes button, Here's my new welcome message (including an animated GIF):

  5. But a welcome message is no good hiding down in the bottom right-hand corner of my course main page. Click on the configuration icon once more and scroll down to the On this page section. To position the welcome message at the top-left of the page I need to specify the region to be on the left and a weight of -10 (that is, as light as a feather, rather than the elephantine +10):

  6. I can now get...