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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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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 – adding a glossary entry


  1. Press the Add a new entry button.

  2. The concept is the word or phrase that you want to explain.

  3. Use the Definition box to give your explanation. Remember that you can use the skills you have learned so far to make a simple glossary entry a truly multimedia experience.

  4. Do you want this particular glossary entry auto-linked, so that wherever it appears in your course a student can click on it to display your explanation? If so, then make sure This entry should be automatically linked is ticked.

  5. When you are ready, scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button. You now have a new entry added to your glossary:

What just happened?

We've just seen how easy it is to add an entry to the glossary. Try to keep glossary entries concise. If your glossary entries start to become more complex than just a few sentences, an image or two, and perhaps a little embedded multimedia, then think about using a wiki instead.

Glossary auto-linking

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