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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

Showing programming examples in Moodle


Name

Jeliot

Module type

Activity

Author

Andrés Moreno

Released

2008

Maintained

Limited activity

Languages

English

Compliance

Good, requires Java WebStart

Documentation

None

Errors

None displayed

Jeliot is a software visualization tool for novice programmers. If you are teaching programming and Java is your language, then this may be a useful tool for you to illustrate the execution of programs to students.

Jeliot is a Java application and this module is a wrapper for the Jeliot environment. The module launches Jeliot and passes it a source code file for the student to work with.

Getting ready

Download and install the Jeliot files into the /moodle/mod/ directory, in a subdirectory called jeliot (even if the zip file has a different name), and visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

Add a Jeliot Activity from the Add an activity… menu on your course page. You will then be asked to configure the activity.

There are three main settings...