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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Celebrating birthdays


Name

Birthday block

Module Type

Block

Author

Anthony Borrow

Released

2007

Maintained

Actively

Languages

Czech, English, English (US), French, French (Canadian), Gallego, German, German (Personal), Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (numerous variants), Swedish

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Readme.txt file

Errors

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"Happy Birthday! It's your special day". That's what this block is all about. This block is a great way to celebrate the birthdays of class members and teachers.

Note

Anthony Borrow is Moodle's "CONTRIB Co-ordinator", that means he co-ordinates code contributed to Moodle, among other things. All the module offerings reviewed in this book, that have been published in the last three years or so, have come before his eyes, and have been advised by his experience. The most amazing thing is that Anthony does this significant and necessary work voluntarily, despite offers of payment.

Anthony was asked to take on the role of...