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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

Lesson activity


Teachers often assume this activity is some kind of lesson planning tool. A Moodle lesson is actually a tool for creating action mazes: the ideal device for exploring scenarios and decision trees, posing quandaries, and for interactive case studies.

Think of a lesson rather like a text-based adventure game, or the Choose Your Own Adventure books popular in the 1980s and 90s, where you find yourself in a certain situation and you need to decide what to do next: You are in a dark dungeon. Do you go through the door on the left? Do you pick up the bloodied axe? Do you take the bag of gold coins from the sleeping troll?

You'll often find these kinds of scenarios in health and safety training. Imagine you are shown a video of someone working in a storeroom and her colleague knocks a box on her head, knocking her out cold. Then, you are asked: who is responsible for this accident—the employee or employer? Your choice then leads you on to, perhaps, another video and another set of...