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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

Course Completion in Practice: Example 2


Because Andy set completion tracking on his course, that course becomes available as a prerequisite for Stuart when he clicks on the Completion tracking link.

  1. Stuart chose this as a prerequisite for his course. Students like Emma won't be able to have their French course marked "complete" until they have shown that they have finished Andy's course:

  2. Additionally, Stuart doesn't want his students to use the self-completion option for his course. Instead, he wants them to have tackled three assignments, so he checked these in the Activities completed section:

What does a teacher see?

When Stuart looks at the Course completion status block at the start of the course, this is what he sees:

Emma finished the How to Be Happy course by marking it complete herself so that prerequisite is checked. Once she has done the other necessary tasks they will be checked too and Stuart's view will change accordingly:

What does a student see?

When student Emma looks at the...