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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

Adding a Flash Video


Name

Flash Video

Module type

Activity

Author

Rashan Anushka

Released

2007

Maintained

Actively, but not so much recently

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

No help files or online documentation

Errors

None displayed

The Multimedia filter, when turned on, allows you to insert players for media files in locations around your course, however, this filter does not allow such multi-media content to be the focus of an activity.

The Flash Video module allows you to create pages containing your own Flash video files. You can add information about the video above the video itself. You can also add notes on a separate tab and students can add their notes individually.

You may be hesitant to try this activity because it suggests third party software is necessary, and no documentation was provided for download location, installation or why this extra software was even needed. If you have large Flash video files and lots of them, it may be prudent to...