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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

Marking a course as "Complete"


Finally, let's look at how a course can be officially classed as finished - if our learning can ever be considered to be "finished" that is! For this to happen, a teacher needs to have enabled Completion tracking and checked/ticked the Completion tracking begins on enrolment box in the course settings as we saw at the start of the chapter:

This will add a new link to the course settings: Completion tracking.

Let's click on the link and take the items a few at a time:

Overall criteria type aggregation

We can choose from All (that is, all tasks must be completed) or Any (that is, a selection).

Course prerequisites

Here we can set our current course so that students need to have completed a previous course first. In this instance, no other courses have got course completion enabled so this isn't possible, but later on we'll see what happens if it is enabled.

Manual self completion

Courses may be declared complete either manually by the student themselves or by the teacher...