Book Image

Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Book Image

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

Using monthly sections for longer courses


Name

Months course format

Module type

Course format

Author

Amr Hourani and Anthony Borrow

Released

2008

Maintained

Limited

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Compliance

Good

Documentation

Online documentation

Errors

None

If you are running a course that stretches over 12 weeks or more, you may start to see your course page growing very large when the weekly format is used. The Months course format allows you to change the time scale of a course from weeks to months.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

Visit the course settings page by clicking the link labeled Settings on the Administration block. Select the Monthly format from the Format list. Save changes to the settings.

How it works...

The format recognizes the time-span of the course and establishes a section for each month involved, even if your course only partially covers a month. This...