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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

Simplifying single section display with tabs


Name

OneTopic (a.k.a. Un tema a la vez)

Module type

Course format

Author

David Herney Bernal García

Released

2009

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English, Spanish (but should work in any language)

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation (Spanish only)

Errors

None

This format takes the method of displaying a single topic at a time, used in the standard Topics format, and simplifies this with tabs at the top of each section

Getting ready

Unzip the module's source directory to /moodle/course/format/. You can then use the format straight away.

How to do it...

Visit the Settings page for your course and scroll down in the General settings area to the Format setting. Choose the Topics in tabs format (not to be confused with the Topics Tabs format described earlier), then save the settings.

The OneTopic format, or as it is written in Spanish, the "Un tema a la vez" format, applies a keep-it-simple philosophy to minimizing use of...