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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 – embedding a video into a Moodle Page


  1. Create a new Page resource and give it a name and a brief description. I'm going to call mine Instructions For Making Hydrogen.

  2. I've started to add some text and an image to my instructions, and I am now at the point where I would like to include a video:

  3. Let's insert the video file I've just uploaded. To do that I'm going to position the cursor at the bottom of the edit box, then I'm going to press the Moodle Media button to display the Insert/edit embedded media dialog:

  4. Click on the Find or upload a sound, video or applet… link. The File picker is displayed, but only showing repositories that are relevant to sound and/or video. The file I need to pick out is in My private files:

  5. Note that I can use the Upload a file link in the list of repositories to upload my video if I wanted too, but I find it easier to upload to My private files first. Either way, use the File picker to navigate to your video file. Once you've found the file, click...