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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

Time for action – categorizing questions


First task is to create a new category:

  1. Return to your course Settings block and under Question bank click on the Categories link.

  2. Let's create a new category for questions related to burning fossil fuels—I know the science department is interested in those. Give your new category a name.

  3. Select the Parent category (you might not need to worry about this just yet). For example, energy questions might be categorized under Physics, which in turn is under Science.

  4. Although you don't have to, give your category a meaningful description. It will make your new category friendlier to your colleagues if you decide to share it with them.

  5. When you are happy with the settings of your new category, press the Add category button. The Edit categories page will be updated to show your new category, and how it fits into the hierarchy of other categories. For example, the parent of my new category is my course, basically:

  6. The numbers in brackets indicate how many questions...

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