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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

Chapter 9. Putting it All Together

Just think about all that we've covered together in previous chapters.

We started, in Chapter 2, Setting up your Courses by learning how to configure a Moodle course and how to make it ready for our teaching materials.

In Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts we began the process of converting our teaching materials over to Moodle, and learned how, by doing so we could not only store and manage those materials more easily, but we also saw how easy it was to hand out resources to students from the course front page.

After learning how to hand out work in Moodle we looked, in the bonus chapter, Handing in Work through Moodle at how easily we can have our students hand in their work via Moodle, a topic we returned to in detail in Chapter 6, Managing Student Work.

In Chapter 4, Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content and Chapter 5, Moodle Makeover we saw how we could use graphics, video, and audio to make our Moodle courses much more engaging and entertaining...