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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

Getting students to shout


Name

Shoutbox block

Module type

Block

Author

Anil Sharma

Released

2009

Maintained

Actively

Languages

English

Compliance

Poor

Documentation

None

Errors

Errors displayed with error reporting enabled

Chatting can be a useful form of communication in a course. The Chat module takes such simple messaging outside the context of the main course page. The Shoutbox block does not conform to all Moodle conventions; however it is a very simple way to allow students to post quick messages to the whole class, and they can do it right on the course page.

Getting ready

Unzip and copy the shoutbox directory into the /moodle/blocks/ directory then visit the Notifications page.

How to do it...

Once you have installed the block it can be added by selecting Shoutbox from the Blocks menu.

The default settings need to be altered when the block is added. The default title should reflect what messages you want students to write in the block.

You can set the number of messages...