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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

Chapter 4. Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content

In the previous chapters, we saw how easy it is to hand out work through Moodle. That's great for a start, but I want to make my course as much entertaining as it is practical. I've also got lots of multimedia content I want to include: for instance, I've got lots of audio and video files—many of them on file sharing websites such as YouTube.

Let's build on what we learned in Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts with, in this chapter, learning the best ways of importing sound and vision into our courses. In this chapter you will learn how to:

  • Import audio and video into your course

  • Experience the different ways Moodle plays your multimedia files, and appreciate the pros and cons of each

  • Embed videos from other websites, such as YouTube, TeacherTube, and Vimeo

  • Create a photo montage using Slide.com

Recall that in Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts we uploaded our documents and handouts to our own, personal 'My private files' area...