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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Teachers, don‚Äôt be intimidated by e-learning! This book shows you how to take your existing course materials and transfer them quickly, effectively and ‚Äì above all ‚Äì easily into an e-learning course using Moodle. Absolute beginners welcome.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849514828
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Wild Ian Wild
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Going Electric FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up your Courses 3. Adding Documents and Handouts 4. Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content 5. Moodle Makeover 6. Managing Student Work 7. Communicating Online 8. Enhancing your Teaching 9. Putting it All Together 10. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Summary


We have spent the first half of this book learning about Moodle and seeing how we can take the resources we've been using and importing them into our Moodle course. We've come across many different techniques we can use to achieve this, and we've used this chapter to spend a little extra time practicing and reinforcing the ideas we have learned in this book so far.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Arranging resources within topics to make topics look more visually appealing. We used the Label resource as the glue to hold resources together.

  • We took a comprehensive look at tips and tricks we can use to make our courses more engaging for students.

  • We included an animated character using Voki.com, and gained more practice at using embeddable code. Other free, animated characters are available (for example, http://digimi.com).

  • We used an HTML block to provide a welcome message to our students.

We've covered converting the so called "static" elements of a taught course from the classroom to the computer...

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