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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

Introduction


This chapter reveals a number of blocks that can be useful in communicating general information to students. This kind of information is not related to materials or assessment, but is still important for students.

Locating online students

Moodle is an excellent learning management system for courses that cater to students studying at a distance. But students studying remotely can feel isolated.

Being able to see that other students are online is a great motivator. Creating a sense of community allows students to feel that they are not alone in their studies. Seeing where online users are located around the world can add an element of significance to the community studying a course.

We will look at a block that complements the Online Users block, to show online users located in a small Google map:

  • Online Users Google Map block

Rating courses

Asking for feedback from students can be like pulling teeth. This invaluable information is very hard to extract from students. Simplifying the...