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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 – enrolling a student on your course


  1. In the Settings block, under Course administration, look for the Users link and click on it—then click on Enrolled users:

  2. The Enrolled users screen is displayed. To enroll a new user, click on either of the Enrol users buttons:

  3. The Enrol users pop-up dialog is displayed. We are going to enroll a student so make sure you have Student selected in the Assign roles drop-down menu at the top of the pop up:

  4. The search box at the bottom of this popup allows me to search for the test student my Moodle admin created for me:

  5. Press the Enrol button to the right of the student's name to enroll the user as a student. Their name is then indented and the Enrol button disappears:

  6. Click on the close icon in the top right-hand corner of the popup to both close the dialog and to actually enroll the student. You'll then see the student listed on the Enrolled users page:

  7. That's it! We're done.

What just happened?

Rather than bothering my Moodle admin to enroll...