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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

Working with books


Module name

Book

Search Books

Random Content

Module type

Activity

Block

Block

Author

Petr Skoda

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) and Antonio Vicent

Borja Rubio Reyes

Released

2006

2007

2008

Maintained

Actively

Actively

Little Activity

Languages

Belarusian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

English, Spanish

English, Spanish

Compliance

Good

Good

Minimal

Documentation

Excellent help files and online documentation

None (but there's not much to it)

None

Errors

None

None

Errors displayed with all error reporting turned on

The Book module is a very popular and useful module that allows course materials to be presented in a more complex and structured way than simple web pages.

There are also a couple of blocks that can be used with the Book module. The Search Books block allows students to search for keywords in a book and be directed...