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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 Lesson


Previously in Moodle, the Lesson module was the only place we could easily set conditions. In Moodle 1.9 I'd often use a Lesson if I wanted to control my students' learning path. I won't need to do this so often now, as Conditional Activities will do the job for me in other modules too.

Stuart set a completion condition on the What do you already know? quiz. He went into the gradebook and set a pass mark for the quiz. Now his students will only get the quiz showing as completed if they obtain 40% or more.

He now needs to set availability conditions on Lesson number 1. Here's how he does it.

With the editing turned on he:

  1. Selects the Add an Activity drop down

  2. Chooses Lesson

  3. Completes other information as he wishes

  4. Scrolls down to Restrict availability

  5. Let's take a look at the settings Stuart chooses. Hopefully by now the penny should be starting to drop!

Let's just focus this time on the two main elements:

Grade condition

Stuart could use this setting to determine when his...