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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

The navigation block


As we saw in an earlier chapter, when you first visit a Moodle 2.0 site you see a Navigation block with a link to the courses, plus any other items you might have on your front page.

When you log in, this block offers four links, which expand to different options according to your permissions:

  • My home: This is a link to a user's personalized MyMoodle page. We'll see later in Appearance how you can make the user's front page default to MyMoodle and instead have this as the link to the site home page.

  • Site pages: This expands to show site pages such as blogs or tags. Depending on the user's permissions they might also see Reports and/or Participants. See the difference between admin's view and our student Emma's view in the following screenshot:

  • My profile: This gives the user quick access to their profile, blogs, and messages. Again, users with extra permissions will have extra links such as Notes and Activity Reports. If you want to edit aspects of your profile, this is...