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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is the best e-learning solution on the block and is revolutionizing courses on the Web. Using JavaScript in Moodle is very useful to administrators and dynamic developers as it uses built-in libraries to provide the modern and dynamic experience that is expected by web users today.The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook will take you through the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries and explain how JavaScript can be used along with Moodle. It will explain how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) with Moodle. YUI will be the main focus of the book, and is the key to implementing modern, dynamic feature-rich interfaces to help your users get a more satisfying and productive Moodle experience. It will enable you to add effects, make forms more responsive, use AJAX and animation, all to create a richer user experience. You will be able to work through a range of YUI features, such as pulling in and displaying information from other websites, enhancing existing UI elements to make users' lives easier, and even how to add animation to your pages for a nice finishing touch.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Anthony Borrow, S.J. is a Jesuit of the New Orleans Province who has been active in the Moodle community for five years. Anthony has an M.A. in Counseling from Saint Louis University, and a Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Anthony has worked on the design and implementation of various database systems since 1992.

Anthony serves the Moodle community as its CONTRIB Coordinator. In that role, Anthony has presented at various MoodleMoots (conferences) across the United States and provided in-house training opportunities for institutions learning how to implement Moodle. Anthony is currently the Campus Minister at Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory (http://cristoreyjesuit.org/) and provides technical advice to the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (http://jsea.org) and the Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy (http://jvla.org/).

Anthony is the co-author of the Honduras chapter of Teen Gangs: A Global View, and also has been a technical reviewer of various Packt books.

Mauno Korpelainen teaches Mathematics for high school and adult students in Hyvinkää, Finland, has been a PHM (Particularly Helpful Moodler) for several years, and is one of the moderators of the moodle.org forums.

Susan Smith Nash is currently the Director of Education and Professional Development for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an adjunct professor at The University of Oklahoma. She was the Associate Dean for graduate programs at Excelsior College (Albany, NY). Previous to that, she was the Online Courses Manager at the Institute for Exploration and Development Geosciences and Director of Curriculum Development for the College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, where she developed an online degree program curriculum for online courses at The University of Oklahoma. She also developed an interface for courses, as well as administrative and procedural support, support programmers, protocol and training manuals, and marketing approaches. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.A. in English and a B.S. in Geology from the University of Oklahoma. Nash blogs at E-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) and E-Learners, and has written articles and chapters on mobile learning, poetics, contemporary culture, and e-learning for numerous publications, including Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (3rd ed), Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications, Talisman, Press1, International Journal of Learning Objects, GHR, World Literature, Gargoyle. Her latest books include Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques (Packt Publishing, 2010), E-Learners Survival Guide (Texture Press, 2009), and Klub Dobrih Dejanj (2008).