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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

URL


The final link in the Add a resource menu is called URL and replaces the link to a file or website option. That option in earlier versions of Moodles has been split into two, with File as we saw earlier being the place to go to upload and display documents created elsewhere, and URL here being the selection to show websites we wish our users to access. This again simplifies creating course content for those not overly techie as it makes it more obvious which to choose providing they know what URL means, of course.

Adding a link to a website with URL

When we click on URL from the Add a resource drop down, we get the editing screen, the top part of which is shown in the following screenshot:

  • The Name and Description fields are completed in the familiar way. We can decide further down whether to include them or not in the display.

  • External URL is where we type in the website we wish our students to visit. If we don't know its name, we can open Google up in a new tab or window, locate it...