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Moodle 2.0 First Look

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Moodle 2.0 First Look

Overview of this book

Moodle is currently the world's most popular E-learning platform. The long-awaited second version of Moodle is now available and brings with it greatly improved functionality. If you are planning to upgrade your site to Moodle 2.0 and want to be up-to-date with the latest developments, then this book is for you.This book takes an in-depth look at all of the major new features in Moodle 2.0 and how it differs from previous Moodle versions. It highlights changes to the standard installation and explains the new features with clear screenshots, so you can quickly take full advantage of Moodle 2.0. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Moodle 2.0, and will give you the confidence to make the move up to Moodle 2.0, either as an administrator or a course teacher.With its step-by-step introduction to the new features of Moodle 2.0, this book will leave you confident and keen to get your own courses up and running on Moodle 2.0. It will take you on a journey from basic navigation to advanced administration, looking at the changes in resource management and activity setup along the way. It will show you new ways tutors and students can control the pace of their learning and introduce you to the numerous possibilities for global sharing and collaborating now available in Moodle 2.0
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

So what's new? Other options for our label


Our mp3 podcast appears in its own player because Moodle's multimedia filters are enabled. In Moodle 1.9 and earlier, this was an all or nothing feature throughout the site. However, Moodle 2.0 now allows teachers in individual courses to switch on or switch off this functionality at your own will.

If we click to update the completed label, we get a label management section in the Settings block above our Course Administration:

Clicking on Filters presents us with the choice to turn on or off the multimedia filters that will display (or not display) Andy's mp3 podcast. This could be useful as sometimes you might need students to download a media file rather than have it play directly from your course page.

Note

We'll take a more detailed look at filters in Chapter 8,

This same feature is available for the Page resource, which we'll take a look at now.