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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. 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 video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – giving students individual files


  1. Go to your course page and choose the topic you want to add the file to. I'm going to add my handout to Topic 1 (Getting Things Flying…).

  2. Are the Add a resource... and Add an activity... options visible on your course main page?

    If not then you need to turn editing on (press the Turn editing on button—usually in the top right-hand corner of the page).

  3. Click on Add a resource and choose File. This displays the Adding a new File… page:

  4. In the General box, I'm going to call this resource Sources of Energy (that's what the handout is about). You'll also need to type in a description (note this can be as short or long as you like):

  5. In the Content box press the Add... button:

  6. The File picker dialog window is displayed. Click on the Private files link on the left of the dialog:

  7. All of the files in your Private files area will be displayed in the right-hand pane in the File picker. Use the File picker to select the file you want to hand out:

  8. Once chosen...