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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide: Teachers, don’t be intimidated by e-learning! This book shows you how to take your existing course materials and transfer them quickly, effectively and – above all – easily into an e-learning course using Moodle. Absolute beginners welcome.

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Chapter 2. Setting up your Courses

In the previous chapter we started our Moodle journey. In this chapter we're going to see how to lay the foundations for moving your department's courses into Moodle. In this chapter we will:

  • Learn how to map your academic curriculum to a number of Moodle courses

  • Create a new Moodle course and give it a name and description

  • Set up an appropriate structure for the course

  • Assign teaching staff to the course

  • Set up an enrollment method for your course

By the end of the chapter your course will be set up and ready for you to start populating it with content.

From curriculum to courses: What counts as a Moodle course

Let's start this section with me describing the course I'm going to be converting to Moodle as we work together through this book. The course is called "Backyard Ballistics" and it's a science course that forms part of an applied physics qualification. The course is all about the art of firing weird objects through the air with chemicals and equipment that you will find in your average domestic kitchen and garden shed.

There are certain aspects of this course that I can't convert to Moodle. I want my students to get an appreciation of energy and dynamics by "doing" (kinesthetic learning) the science using everyday items you'll find around your house. But there is a good deal of support material, handouts, diagrams, and quizzes, that currently I try and distribute electronically using a "shared drive" on the college server. However, my students can never find the materials I tell them to go and look for. At least, that's their excuse...

Let's get started: Setting up the course

The remainder of the book will focus on just one course. If you're putting your whole department into Moodle then you'll have lots of courses to work through. That's why it's so useful to assign other teaching staff to course creation, and let them share the work. We'll show you how to do that too.

Creating your course

Before you start building your course, it needs to be "created" in Moodle. If you're working in a school or university, then there are three ways this might happen:

  • An administrator has already created it: Sometimes, administrators create empty courses for all the official courses taught by an institution.

  • Put in a request: In other situations, the administrators require that teachers request new courses; the administrator then approves the course, and it's created.

  • Create it yourself: In other circumstances you might have permission to create courses yourself. If it was you that installed your Moodle then you will definitely have permission to create courses.

How is it that you cannot create courses but your colleagues can? Let's look at this in the next section.

Do you need to create your course yourself

You might be lucky, your administrator may have made you a manager or a course creator, meaning you get to create your own courses. Note that managers have slightly more...

Time for action – configuring the Backyard Ballistics course

Let's start by creating my Backyard Ballistics course. I'm not too worried about fine tuning it now. I just want to get it started, we will fine tune the course later, once we've got the basics up and running:

  1. Type the course title next to Course full name, Backyard Ballistics.

  2. Enter the short name. This has to be completely unique (if there's another course with the same short name, Moodle will complain). I'm going to specify MCC-BC.

  3. Enter a summary using the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. See how we can use formatting for the description, as you would with a word processor:

  4. Look for the Format setting (almost immediately under the Course summary editor). Click on the drop-down menu and select Topics format.

  5. Because we're just setting up the course, we don't want students enrolling yet so scroll down to the availability options. Click on the Availability drop-down list and select This course is not available to...

Course structure and format

Courses are divided into sections. What constitutes a section depends on the course's format. If you're new to Moodle then there are two main, important formats:

  • Weekly format: Each section represents one week of study

  • Topics format: Each section represents a particular topic or aspect of the course

For your first few courses, especially courses based on existing non-e-learning material, these are likely to be the only two you use. However, there are others:

  • SCORM: Third-party e-learning materials are likely going to be supplied to you in SCORM format (SCORM is an educational resource "standard" format, in much the same way that documents are supplied in ".DOC" format). If you know what they are then this is a useful course format type. If you've never heard of SCORM then don't worry.

  • Social format: The whole course is built around a single forum. This is useful for using Moodle to manage things that are not strictly courses. You could use it to set up a departmental...

Time for action – setting up the course format

  1. Return to the Course settings screen.

  2. From the Format options, choose Topics format or Weekly format. For mine, I'm going to choose Topics format:

  3. Choose the number of topics / weeks. I've planned for six topics in my course.

  4. For weekly courses, make sure you set a start date.

  5. Now scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button to return to your course page:

What just happened?

I've just broken up my Backyard Ballistics course into five "topics", that is, five numbered boxes because that's how my course is structured in the real world. Again, five topics is a natural fit.

You can still adjust the number of topics / weeks in your course once your course is populated with content. However, if you reduce the number then later topics will disappear. So if you have 10 topics, and later reduce it to eight, anything that you had added to topics nine and 10 will vanish from view but are still there (and are still accessible if people...

Time for action – defining each week/topic

  1. Return to your course page. Make sure you have editing turned on, by either pressing the Turn editing on button in the top-right corner of the screen or by clicking on the Turn editing on link in the Settings block:

  2. Click the hand and pen icon next to the topic number you want to edit (hovering the mouse over the icon displays a helpful "Edit summary" tip):

  3. Now enter a short summary of the topic. This summary also has to serve as the topic title. You might want to use rich formatting to differentiate the title from the rest of the text:

  4. When you're done, press the Save changes button and you'll go back to your course with the new summary in place. If you want to cancel the change, just press the Cancel button.

  5. Do this for each week / topic in the course.

What just happened

So far we have:

  • Planned how we are going to divide up our course, using either a weekly or a topics format, then configured the course to use that format

  • We included descriptions for...

Assigning teaching staff

If you are teaching on your own in your own Moodle, you won't have to worry about working with fellow colleagues. Each member of staff in Moodle will usually fall into one of the following categories:

  • Administrator: Has complete control over a Moodle. Equivalent to a chief executive or a school principal.

  • Manager: Can create and delete courses. They do have the option of coming into your course and doing your job but, if they are traditional managers, they probably wouldn't know how to.

  • Course creator: Can create new courses and edit them. By default, course creators can't actually delete courses.

  • Teacher: Can edit and work with existing courses, but cannot create new ones. This role can add new resources and activities, change topics, and settings.

  • Non-editing teacher: Can grade work and teach, but can't edit courses. This role will only become relevant when we get to interactive course content in later chapters.

It depends on the management structure in your...

Time for action – assigning roles

  1. Add a new course to your Moodle using the process described previously.

  2. From the Settings block on your new course page, click on Users and then Enrolled users:

  3. Now you can choose who to assign to what role on your course. Press either of the Enrol users buttons:

  4. The Enrol users dialog window is displayed. In the Assign roles drop-down menu select Teacher:

  5. You need to select the users you want to be editing teachers on your course from the list of potential teachers. If you can't immediately find your colleague from the list then try using the search box at the bottom of the dialog window:

  6. If the member of staff you need isn't listed then they will need to have a login created (which is possible if your Moodle is relatively new or unused). That's the job of your Moodle administrator (and beyond the scope of this book).

  7. To enroll your colleague press the Enrol button to the right of their name:

  8. Once you have finished making your changes, click on the close button...

Let in the rabble: Enrolling students on your course

Was your course created for you by your administrator? You may even have gone to the Enrolled users page to find that you already had students enrolled on your course. If there is no general policy for getting students enrolled on a Moodle course then you have a number of options open to you. Let's take a look at these.

Enrolling with a key

The easiest way to enroll a class onto a course is to specify an enrollment key. This is like a password for the course. Each student then tries to register on the course, and is asked for the key. They type it in and, hey presto, they are enrolled.

Time for action – specifying a course enrollment key

  1. Click on Users in your course Settings block and then click on Enrollment methods:

  2. Enable the Self enrolment (Student) method by poking it in the eye (make sure the eye is open):

  3. Click on the Self enrolment (Student) edit icon (the hand holding the pencil) to open the Self enrolment configuration page:

  4. Most of the settings on this page are self-explanatory (do you remember how to find help on a particular setting?) but make sure you have Allow self enrolments set to Yes and have specified an enrolment password. You can make the password as simple or as complicated as you wish:

  5. When you're finished, scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button.

  6. That's it, you're done!

What just happened?

We've just specified an enrollment key for our courses. How you hand that key out to your students is entirely up to you. When it is time to get my students enrolled on my courses I usually write the key on the whiteboard. After a week...

Summary

You've achieved a lot in this chapter. It's only Chapter 2 and already you have:

  • Created a course, and configured it to use the right short and long name, description, and format

  • Structured your course, created a set of individual topics (or weeks) complete with description, and maybe a welcome message too

  • Assigned other teaching staff to help you manage your courses

Set an enrollment key that you can give to students when the time is right.

Of course, a student enrolling on your Moodle course now won't learn very much but that's about to change. So keep the enrollment key secret for now. By the end of Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts, you'll have content online and might be ready to let your students start working with it.

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Key benefits

  • Move your existing course notes, worksheets, and resources into Moodle quickly
  • No need to start from scratch! This book shows you the quickest way to start using Moodle and e-learning, by bringing your existing lesson materials into Moodle
  • Demonstrates quick ways to improve your course, taking advantage of multimedia and collaboration
  • Requires no prior knowledge of Moodle, even experienced Moodlers will find this useful for converting ‚Äòpaper‚Äô resources and face-to-face lessons into Moodle

Description

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn’t end there– you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.

Who is this book for?

This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their course, rather than developing brand new ones. You won’t need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher-access to a ready-installed Moodle site.Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful

What you will learn

  • Incorporate your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses
  • Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun
  • Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos
  • Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation
  • Move marking online! See how students can submit their assignments straight into Moodle, for you to mark assess on the computer ‚Äì no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school
  • Use forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it‚Äôs convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time.
  • See how you can make your course a completely online experience ‚Äì dispensing with face time all together

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
Going Electric Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Going Electric
What can Moodle do for me
Who is this book for
What will we be doing together
The history of Moodle
Getting logged on
Time for action – logging in to Moodle
Time for action – editing your profile
Doing your job – Your role
Moodle look and feel
Summary
Setting up your Courses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting up your Courses
From curriculum to courses: What counts as a Moodle course
Let's get started: Setting up the course
Creating your course
Time for action – configuring the Backyard Ballistics course
Course structure and format
Time for action – setting up the course format
Time for action – defining each week/topic
Assigning teaching staff
Time for action – assigning roles
Let in the rabble: Enrolling students on your course
Time for action – specifying a course enrollment key
Summary
Adding Documents and Handouts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Documents and Handouts
Uploading files
Time for action – uploading a file
Time for action – packing files together
Time for action – removing files
Organizing your files
Time for action – creating a "Handouts" folder
Time for action – putting files where we want them
Dishing out the work
Time for action – giving students individual files
Time for action – displaying a folder
Documents and handouts: Which format
Time for action – uploading an image and including it in a summary
Time for action – compressing images
Time for action – creating a web page
Turning large documents into a wiki
Time for action – adding a hidden topic
Time for action – adding a wiki
Time for action – creating a wiki contents page
Time for action – adding a new wiki page
Summary
Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content
Linking to other websites
Time for action – creating links to websites on the course main page
Time for action – putting links in a Moodle web page
Time for action – making a link out of text
Importing videos
Time for action – including a video on your course front page
Time for action – embedding a video into a Moodle Page
Time for action – getting your videos to play in Moodle
Time for action – embedding the YouTube player into your course
Time for action – embedding a video from TeacherTube
Playing audio
Time for action – embedding an audio clip
More on embedding
Time for action – adding a slide show
Summary
Moodle Makeover Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Moodle Makeover
Arranging your resources
Time for action – arranging your resources
Time for action – inserting a label
Hypnotic HTML: Finessing your web pages and descriptions
Time for action – grabbing an image from a Word document
Time for action – displaying things side by side
Time for action – adding a welcome message
Backing up your course
Time for action – backing up your course
Summary
Managing Student Work Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Student Work
Converting projects and assignments
Time for action – adding a topic and hiding it
Time for action – adding an Offline activity assignment
Time for action – adding an Advanced uploading of files assignment
Time for action – enrolling a student on your course
Time for action – uploading a file to an assignment
Time for action – marking an Offline assignment
Time for action – providing feedback on student submissions
Time for action – creating a custom grade scale
Time for action – grading using a custom scale
More uses for Moodle assignments
Grading students on core competencies
Time for action – creating a custom grade item in the grader report
Time for action – grading core competencies in assignments
Summary
Communicating Online Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Communicating Online
Communicating in Moodle
Forums
Time for action – adding a forum
Time for action – subscribing users to a forum
Time for action – starting a discussion
Time for action – rating forum posts
Time for action – splitting a discussion
Online chat rooms
Time for action – adding a Moodle chat
Time for action – telling students when we're around
Time for action – adding the calendar
Moodle messaging
Time for action – sending a message to your students
Time for action – adding and using the Messages block
Time for action – adding a contact
Summary
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Enhancing your Teaching
Quiz
Time for action – adding a question to the question bank
Time for action – categorizing questions
Time for action – adding a quiz to the course
Lesson activity
Time for action – configuring a lesson
Time for action – adding a content table
Time for action – inserting a question page
Time for action – configuring page jumps
Workshop – Peer review and assessment
Time for action – adding a workshop
Wiki
Time for action – adding a wiki
Glossary activity
Time for action – including a glossary
Time for action – adding a glossary entry
Choice
Time for action – adding a choice activity
A learning journey
Completion tracking
Time for action – enabling completion tracking on an activity
Conditional activities
Time for action – configuring conditional activities
Ask the admin
Summary
Putting it All Together Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Putting it All Together
Blended learning with Moodle
Time for action – new course quick configuration
Time for action – converting a crossword to Moodle
Converting to fully online courses
Time for action – creating student groups
Time for action – manually adding students to a group
Time for action – specifying a group enrollment key
Time for action – group work in a forum
Time for action – create groupings
Time for action – configuring the gradebook
Backup and Restore
Time for action – back up your course
Time for action – restore a course
Summary
Pop Quiz Answers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 1, Going Electric
Chapter 2, Setting up your Courses
Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts

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Janet Bianchini Feb 29, 2012
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Written by Ian Wild and published by Packtpub as a second edition in November 2011, Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginners' Guide provides a valuable and insightful guide to converting your teaching materials to the latest edition of Moodle 2.0. At 368 pages long, with nine clearly defined chapters, divided in two parts, the information showcased is comprehensive and easily managed.Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginners' Guide is primarily aimed, but not exclusively, at teachers / educators who are beginners in dealing with Moodle. This comprehensive book demonstrates in a very clear manner how easy it is to create a course entirely online using the teacher's own worksheets and materials. My opinion is that this is a very practical and useful guide to have for any teacher contemplating shifting their work from a paper based / non digital format to a highly sophisticated and modern online medium.The introduction quotes the notion of a "fast" learning curve for readers of this book, and this caught my eye. Although the book is packed full with useful information, it is indeed condensed in a very efficient way and therefore easy to read in manageable chunks with clearly defined headings to lead the way. My feeling is that objectives can be achieved in a short space of time by following the considerable amount of tutorials, screenshots and clear explanations included in the book.What I liked...The step by step approach with ample screenshots was greatly appreciated, and made the information much more easily accessible.I particularly liked the Pop Quiz to recycle information digested, and there were many examples of this feature in each of the chapters. I found myself keen to see if I could answer the questions quickly to prove to myself that I had taken in the information.In addition, the "Have a go hero" feature is a great touch, which sets practical challenges. It also gives you ideas for further experimentation of materials covered.I also liked the practical "Word of caution" sections and I learned some useful tips for things to avoid doing, such as not logging on to Moodle as two different users.The frequent "What just happened?" question was effective in breaking up chunks of information, and served as a useful review of the content. The "Time for action" heading also served a useful purpose for running through procedures.Would I recommend it?Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginners' Guide seems to do what it says on the blurb and cover and as a result, I would recommend this book to any teacher / administrator / tutor embarking on changing files and materials to Moodle.
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Janetta Garton Feb 25, 2012
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From the start it is apparent that this book is written for teachers just getting started with Moodle, the premise being "how to get your existing teaching material online quickly and easily." This approach should make the creation of an online course less daunting for beginners.It follows a logical sequence, and covers all the main concepts. The directions are kept simple, avoiding detailed explanations of every option you have, and focusing on the common choices beginning users might make when creating a course. I think this is a great approach and is less likely to overwhelm a newbie than a comprehensive how-to would, that explains in detail all the options.I was especially pleased to see the information shared on how to set up a shared quiz bank to allow teachers to share questions beyond the course level. I feel this is an example of what using technology in teaching is all about. Using technology to do things we can't do without it.I also like that he spends some time explaining how to make your course visually appealing by using labels, images, tables, and the embedding of content. You can tell it is written by an experienced user when he includes reminders about embedding content that might be blocked by the school filter for students and thus not accessible to them.He explains situations in which a teacher would need to check with the administrator of the Moodle to enable features. It also includes good examples and explanations about the management of collecting and grading student assignments.I will be recommending this book to our teachers who are just getting started in Moodle.
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S. Betts Jan 12, 2012
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This new book is a good guide for newbies to Moodle 2.x. "Overview of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide" by Ian Wild takes the reader through setting up a course to enhancing it with multi-media. I like how it exemplifies converting an existing course into one with blended learning. Mr Wild uses a Physics course of his own to demonstrate how this "conversion" would be done.His examples are clear and he does a great job of sorting out and emphasizing the most important steps. You can easily see that this is written for teachers by a teacher. Anyone can use this book to make that first move to online learning without any prior knowledge of the Moodle platform.Please note that I was fortunate enough to be one of the reviewers on this book.
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Mary Cooch Dec 11, 2011
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This is an updated version of Ian Wild's original book, written for 1.9 at the end of 2008 and was Packt's first Beginners' Guide - easy to follow, step by step introductions to cutting-edge technologies and new techniques. The style is friendly, to the point and moves the newbie Moodler quickly on to where they need to be. In chapter 1 following a brief rationale and history of Moodle and an outline of course roles and navigation we log in and get to business. Chapter 2 has us setting up our course and assigning users, teachers and students and looking at the various ways to do this. We really felt we were getting to grips with Moodle right from the start; no extraneous, unnecessary detail; just hands on action. Probably the first thing most tutors will want to do is put on their resources for their students, be those resources word-processed documents, presentations or whatever, Chapter 3 covers how to do this in depth and also includes a discussion on the best ways of doing this. Sometimes the best way isn't merely uploading a document: Ian has the tutors investigating Moodle pages and wikis too , and is careful to explain how Moodle's so-called "file picker" system operates. So we have our stuff online-how can we make it as much entertaining as it is practical? (in Ian's words) Chapter 4 covers sound and vision and Moodle's great media icon that lets you embed multimedia literally at the click of a button. In chapter 5, Ian then moves us on to the actual appearance of our course by offering hints (with labels and tables ) to make it more visually appealing. You can read chapter 5 as a free sample on the Packt website. And then -just as we were beginning to get carried away with making it pretty ! -we get to the important business of assessing and grading our classes .Chapter 6 covers assignments, marking, giving feedback, custom grades and outcomes.Chapter 7 is all about ways to communicate: forums, chats, the calendar and messaging, while Chapter 8 takes the reader into more "advanced" Moodling with some of the more complex activites such as Quiz, Lesson and Workshop. He also briefly touches on selected release, or Conditional Activities. We like the way admin settings are given a section of their own "Ask the admin" rather than keeping them in with the tutor's needs, as most tutors won't have admn access yet need to know what they require of their admin. Chapter 9 covers a mixture of items -changing the course settings to fit the needs of specific learning environments; creating a SCORM activity; ways to divide classes up in to groups and -most important -how to backup and restore your course. A nice way to end the book -we start from no knowledge and finish by having a fully functional course we can take away with us:)In conclusion, we found this an extremely readable book that certainly lives up to its name of "Beginner's Guide".
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Nancy V Dec 27, 2011
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As e-learning becomes the mode of preference for students and institutions, big or small, teachers need to (reluctantly or not) get on board. Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion for Beginners (2nd ed.) speaks directly to teachers who want to get up and running online with their existing teaching materials.Not only does this book do a great job of guiding and encouraging teachers new to Moodle, but it also does so with a sense of light humour at a non-pressured pace. At the outset, adding files and audio and video are covered, but as the book progresses, even collaborative learning tools such as discussion forums, groups and wikis are addressed.I was most impressed that the text covered some workshop functionality (peer review projects), so definitely even an experienced teacher could learn new tricks.To sum, you can indeed convert existing course materials into a very acceptable online learning experience for students while ramping up your knowledge of e-learning.This book, with its many screenshots, will walk you through the process.
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