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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

You're reading from   Moodle 1.9 Multimedia Create and share multimedia learning materials in your Moodle courses.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847195906
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
1. Preface
1. Getting Ready for Multimedia in Moodle 2. Picture This FREE CHAPTER 3. Sound and Music 4. Video 5. Web 2.0 and Other Multimedia Forms 6. Multimedia and Assessments 7. Synchronous Communication and Interaction 8. Common Multimedia Issues in Moodle

Moodle it!


Inserting images in Moodle is really easy. Now that we have a source of free pictures for our course, there are several ways to insert them, depending on the type of resource or activity that we are using. We will have a look at the following three ways in this book:

  • Uploading images as attachments (for example, in forums, glossaries, or databases).

  • Using the built-in HTML editor and the course files area to store the images.

  • Embedding HTML code (specific for images) on web forms. (Don't be scared, it's easy and can be helpful on some occasions, just as we saw with YouTube videos. We will use it later in Chapter 5 for adding pictures to Google Maps, for example).

For now, let's just look at the first two ways of inserting images.

Uploading images as attachments

Using attachments is the easiest way to add a picture to Moodle. This possibility is available for some activities in Moodle, such as the forum, glossary, and database, and it's the easiest way for students to submit their...

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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
Published in: May 2009
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781847195906
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