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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

Chapter 1. Going Electric

Imagine a world where you could set your students tests and they would come in already marked. Imagine a time when pupils could submit their coursework and projects digitally instead of on paper. Not only would we save an awful lot of trees, but there would be no more "the printer ran out of ink" type excuses for not handing in homework on time. If only there was a system that allowed students and teachers to exchange work through a carefully administered, fully automatic digital framework, you would never have to worry about a student's work ever going missing again.

These systems do exist and they're called Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or Course Management Systems (CMSs) depending on who you ask. Moodle is one of many, but it's certainly the one that's become by far the most popular in all tiers of education, including work-based learning, too.

Advances in technology are driving the use of Moodle. There is the rise of the low-cost mini laptop (for example, the Dell Latitude or Asus EEE PC) which makes having a portable, Internet-enabled device for every pupil a practical reality in many schools. Add to this the simple fact that young people now find IT much more engaging as a learning tool.

No doubt these are just a few of the reasons why you find yourself wondering how to start converting your teaching over to Moodle. Maybe you are wondering how to advocate using Moodle in your school. Perhaps your school is converting to Moodle and you are worried about being left behind.

Are you currently only teaching face-to-face in a classroom or lecture theatre? Maybe you're using another managed learning environment (if you are then you don't know what you're missing!) and need to convert. The question is: how do I convert to Moodle? That's the question we'll be answering in this book.

To help us get an appreciation of the tool we are about to use, we begin by looking at a little of the Moodle back story. But as soon as we can, let's log on, have a walk around the system, and then let everyone know we've arrived.

In this chapter we shall:

  • Learn why Moodle was created and how it was developed

  • Learn how to log on and log out

  • Explore the Moodle interface and start learning some Moodle terminology

  • Configure our user profiles

So let's make a start.

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Published in: Nov 2011
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849514828
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