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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

Squeezing main page content into a block


Name

Side Bar Block

Module type

Block

Author

Justin Filip, Mike Churchward, Fernando Oliveira

Released

2006

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation, readme.txt file

Errors

None

This block can contain content that you would normally add in the sections of a course main page. The block displays links to activities and resources, just as they would normally appear on the course main page.

Note

Don't be discouraged by the mention of incompatibility on the module's entry in the Moodle Modules and plugins database. This block has been around for some time and has been updated for several versions. It works well with Moodle 1.9.x.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the Side Bar block directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory then visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

There is a global block setting associated with this block. After installing the block you might want to check it at Site Administration...