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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 – sending a message to your students


  1. In the Navigation block, under your course, click on Participants:

  2. Under the list of participants, press the Select All button.

  3. Click on the With selected users... drop-down menu and select Send a message from the list:

  4. Type your message into the message box:

  5. Take a look at the currently selected users list at the bottom of the page. You can remove users you accidentally selected on the previous screen by pressing the Remove button next to their name. Note that I'm purposefully sending the message to myself. If one of my students claims they haven't received it and I have, then I know it's not a problem with Moodle.

  6. When you are happy with your message, press the Preview button.

  7. If you want to make changes, press the Update button. If you are happy then press Send.

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

What just happened?

We've just sent out a message to all of our students welcoming them to our courses. Sending a message to students is easy, you simply...