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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

Setting up the quiz


Stuart set a completion condition on the Bonjour! forum. He now needs to set an availability condition on the What do you already know? quiz. Here's how he does it.

With the editing turned on, he:

  1. Selects the Add an Activity drop down

  2. Chooses quiz

  3. Completes other information as he wishes (he'll make the questions later)

  4. Scrolls down to the Restrict availability section

Let's take a look at the settings Stuart chooses and see if our understanding' getting clearer:

Only available from

This is where Stuart could set a date range for the quiz to be visible, but he leaves this as he sets conditions elsewhere.

Grade condition

This is where Stuart would specify a grade or grade range necessary before students could do the quiz but this doesn't apply here.

Activity completion condition

This is where Stuart decides that students must have done something in the forum first before this quiz is visible to them. (We know what that something is because we saw that when he set the forum up...