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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 – backing up your course


You'll find many, many options you can choose as we run through the backup procedure. At this stage it's best just to stick with the defaults and back up everything.

Once you've selected Backup from the Settings block you are taken to your Course Backup page. Simply leave the defaults as they are (where most options will be selected), scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Next.

The next page allows you to choose which topics you want to include in your backup. Again, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Next.

Now we can choose a name for our backup file. Moodle automatically creates a name for you, based on the time, date, and the course short name. You can leave it as it is, if you want to. This page also allows us to confirm all that we have specified so far. Assuming all is well, we can scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Perform backup button.

Moodle will now have created the course backup for you (scroll down...