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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 – inserting a label


I'm going to start the process of arranging my resources by having a short piece of text to introduce the Backyard Ballistics links resource:

  1. Make sure editing is turned on, click on Add a resource and choose Label.

  2. In the Adding a New Label page, enter your label text. When you are done, press the Save and return to course button.

  3. The new label is added to the end of the list of resources, which is obviously the wrong place for it. Click on the move icon, next to the label you have just added:

  4. The page is redisplayed. Your new label disappears and lots of boxes have appeared. These boxes represent the places where your new label can go:

  5. Click on the relevant box to place your label. You're done!

Tip

If you don't have a move icon you'll have crosshairs next to the label that you can click on to drag it to the right place.

What just happened?

After all the experience we have had with Moodle so far, using the label resource will be fairly straightforward. Judicious...