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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

Blog settings


So far we've just looked at how and where to add a blog entry. There are other settings connected to blogs which can be accessed from the profile Settings block (that is, not the navigation block). The following screenshot shows the path to the blog settings and it offers us three links:

Preferences

This is where we can decide how many blog entries per page we'd like to see.

External blogs

A brand new feature for Moodle 2.0, this allows user's to bring external blog posts into Moodle by specifying the RSS/ATOM feed of the blog, which is then checked through a cron task and entries copied into the user's blog in Moodle. It could be a blog belonging to the user that they'd like to share within Moodle, or it could be the posts of an admired blogger that they'd like to display alongside their own blog posts. In the following example, Stuart, our French teacher has chosen to import the blog feeds of two online colleagues:

Note

The check in the Valid column tells us the feed is correctly...