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Moodle 2.0 First Look

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Moodle 2.0 First Look

Overview of this book

Moodle is currently the world's most popular E-learning platform. The long-awaited second version of Moodle is now available and brings with it greatly improved functionality. If you are planning to upgrade your site to Moodle 2.0 and want to be up-to-date with the latest developments, then this book is for you.This book takes an in-depth look at all of the major new features in Moodle 2.0 and how it differs from previous Moodle versions. It highlights changes to the standard installation and explains the new features with clear screenshots, so you can quickly take full advantage of Moodle 2.0. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Moodle 2.0, and will give you the confidence to make the move up to Moodle 2.0, either as an administrator or a course teacher.With its step-by-step introduction to the new features of Moodle 2.0, this book will leave you confident and keen to get your own courses up and running on Moodle 2.0. It will take you on a journey from basic navigation to advanced administration, looking at the changes in resource management and activity setup along the way. It will show you new ways tutors and students can control the pace of their learning and introduce you to the numerous possibilities for global sharing and collaborating now available in Moodle 2.0
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Navigating around a course


That's about it for the front page; let's click on that Courses link in the Navigation block now and head off to Stuart's French for Beginners course to look at it from a teacher's perspective. When Stuart accesses his own course, this is what he sees in the Navigation block, as shown in the following screenshot:

Again, as seen in the front page, he has links to the following:

  • Home: Back to the front page

  • myMoodle: Back to the myMoodle page

  • My profile: It gives him profile options

What we're focusing on here, though, is My courses.

Stuart is a teacher in just one course, French for Beginners. When expanded, the list first offers us several links:

  • Participants: An important and useful link to everyone in the course

  • Reports: Another important and useful link to the logs and so on

  • Introduction: This is actually Topic 0 (and were we to expand it, we would find links to the news forum and other items Stuart has included in Topic 0)

  • First Steps in French: This is actually Topic...