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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

Creating video blocks


Name

YouTube Video Playlist

Module type

Block

Author

Paul Holden

Released

2007

Maintained

Could do with updating for recent versions

Languages

English, (plus language packs for Italian, Portuguese Brazilian, Spanish)

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Limited online documentation

Errors

Errors displayed with all error reporting turned on

The YouTube Video Playlist block allows you to build a list of YouTube videos from which it will select a single video when the block is displayed.

Getting ready

Download and install the block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory and visit the Notifications page.

You will need to have found a video hosted on YouTube and know the address of the page that shows the video.

How to do it...

Once installed, the block can be configured by visiting the block's configuration page.

This block expects you to create a playlist of videos available from YouTube. Once you have found a video at YouTube that you would like to add, copy...