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Moodle for Mobile Learning

By : Mark Aberdour
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Moodle for Mobile Learning

By: Mark Aberdour

Overview of this book

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and offer many new possibilities for learning. Moodle, when combined with a mobile device, opens up a new world of possibilities to teachers, instructors, and training professionals to develop their courses. The learning experience can be hugely improved by playing to the strengths of mobile devices, and Moodle for Mobile Learning helps you do just that."Moodle for Mobile Learning" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with ideas and step-by-step exercises that will help you leverage the features of mobile devices in your Moodle course designs. It also aims at providing you with hands-on knowledge in creating mlearning courses so that you can create your own effective mobile learning interactions.Looking at the underlying theory of mobile learning, "Moodle for Mobile Learning" aims to enable you to apply this to course design using Moodle. Organized into key sectors including schools, further and higher education, and workplace learning, this book will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of mobile technology in your Moodle course design.You will learn how to develop your mobile learning strategy and whether to use a mobile friendly Moodle theme or a Moodle mobile app to deliver your strategy. There are certain types of learning activities that are perfectly suited to mobile delivery. We look at delivering podcasts, engaging with social media, setting up photo, video and audio assignments, setting up eBook and App libraries, uploading audio assignment feedback, submitting reflective logs, using chat and messaging tools, using web conferencing and much more.Mobile devices already form the backbone of your learners' daily lives. If you want to use Moodle to bring those devices into the learning process, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle for Mobile Learning
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix
Index

Adding a Blogs link to the site header


Role: Site Administrator

Time: 15 minutes and above

Device: Desktop

This handy tip will give mobile users quick access to site blogs without having to scroll through the navigation block.

  1. Click on ADMINISTRATION | Site administration | Appearance | Theme settings.

  2. Scroll down to the field Custom menu items. You can add menu items into the empty text box. Each line consists of some menu text, a link URL, and a tooltip title, separated by pipe characters.

  3. So to add a Blogs link you can add the text Blogs|http://www.moodleformobiles.com/blog/index.php?courseid=0|Site blogs, replacing www.moodleformobiles.com with your own site's homepage URL.

This will display a header bar throughout the site, like the following, which is shown using the Bootstrap theme.

The same view on a mobile device uses the device's menu icon, which is a small square icon in the top-right corner of the device screen. This icon, when clicked on, expands to show a collapsible menu...