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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 – categorizing questions


First task is to create a new category:

  1. Return to your course Settings block and under Question bank click on the Categories link.

  2. Let's create a new category for questions related to burning fossil fuels—I know the science department is interested in those. Give your new category a name.

  3. Select the Parent category (you might not need to worry about this just yet). For example, energy questions might be categorized under Physics, which in turn is under Science.

  4. Although you don't have to, give your category a meaningful description. It will make your new category friendlier to your colleagues if you decide to share it with them.

  5. When you are happy with the settings of your new category, press the Add category button. The Edit categories page will be updated to show your new category, and how it fits into the hierarchy of other categories. For example, the parent of my new category is my course, basically:

  6. The numbers in brackets indicate how many questions...