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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

The grading evaluation phase


When the assessing time is over, we can start working out those marks! The next section turns green when Andy is ready to turn on the light bulb:

  • Grading evaluation method and Comparison of assessments are currently (at the time of writing) the only options available and are the same as used in Moodle 1.

  • Re-calculate grades: A teacher always has the final say on the marks given. Let's take a look at the grades now that Andy's group has completed their task.

We have two extra columns now the total grade for a student submitting their work, and the total grade for assessing others'. But what if we don't agree?

Teacher control

Seeing the overview of the grades given, our teacher Andy feels that maybe Paul was bit harsh on George contrasted with the other boys. Maybe they had an argument offline and Paul gave George a much lower mark for his poem. This is reflected also in Paul's lower assessment grade, which Moodle calculates according to how close a student is to...