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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

A menu block with the works


Name

YUI Menu

Module type

Block

Author

Alan Trick

Released

2007

Maintained

Very actively

Languages

English, French, Chinese (Traditional)

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation, readme.txt file

Errors

Issues with YUI Library

The YUI Menu block allows students to navigate around the course main page and to access common activities and resources directly. This block duplicates the functionality of the People block, the Activities block, and the functionality of the Administration block as used by students. So with this block in place, those other blocks can be turned off and precious screen real-estate can be saved. Unfortunately the block does not replicate Administration functions for a teacher. If you do remove the Administration block, you will have to add it again when it comes time to alter course settings, conduct backups, restores, or imports, run reports, or access the files area.

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