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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 – adding a glossary entry


  1. Press the Add a new entry button.

  2. The concept is the word or phrase that you want to explain.

  3. Use the Definition box to give your explanation. Remember that you can use the skills you have learned so far to make a simple glossary entry a truly multimedia experience.

  4. Do you want this particular glossary entry auto-linked, so that wherever it appears in your course a student can click on it to display your explanation? If so, then make sure This entry should be automatically linked is ticked.

  5. When you are ready, scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button. You now have a new entry added to your glossary:

What just happened?

We've just seen how easy it is to add an entry to the glossary. Try to keep glossary entries concise. If your glossary entries start to become more complex than just a few sentences, an image or two, and perhaps a little embedded multimedia, then think about using a wiki instead.

Glossary auto-linking

When...