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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Part 2: Site administration how-tos


You'll need to work with your Moodle administrator or have administration access yourself to do the set-up work covered in this chapter. You'll also need administrative access to do things like override permissions on set-up pages when you're setting up activities. Override permissions means you can allow users to do additional things, like managing files. You can, of course, disallow them to do certain things.

If you're impatient to start trying out Moodle, the key how-to sections are the first six:

  • How to create and manage users

  • How to create and manage courses

  • How to set up activities

  • How to upload files to Moodle

  • How to upload images to Moodle

Once you've opened a course, you can get going, and then come back to this section later. But it's worth reviewing all the sections at some point, as they will influence your Moodle site a lot.

To access the administration menu, go to your Moodle site home page, and find the Site Administration menu (screenshot below...