Jason Cole, Helen Foster

Using Moodle

Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.

Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:

- Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course.

- Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.

- Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.

- Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class.

- Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site

A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain.Using Moodle is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

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Produktdetails

• O'Reilly Community Press
• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780596529185
• ISBN-10: 059652918X
• Artikelnr.: 22059475

Autorenporträt

Jason Cole is currently the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he's responsible for managing a Blackboard implementation that has over 15,000 users. A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system, and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado. Helen Foster is a Moodle administrator for the site with the most users (over 500,000 with around 1,500 new users daily) - Moodle.org - and is a facilitator for the Using Moodle course, which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen currently works full-time for Moodle as the Community Manager. Helen has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
What Is Moodle?
Who Is This Book For?
Prerequisites-What Do You Need Before You Start?
About Us
How to Use This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Safari® Enabled
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 What Is a Course Management System?
1.2 What Makes Moodle Special?
Chapter 2: Moodle Basics
2.1 Getting Started
2.2 Creating an Account
2.3 A First Look at a Course
2.4 Adding Content to a Course
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Content
3.1 Adding Content to Moodle
3.2 Managing and Updating Your Content
3.3 Effective Content Practices
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Managing Your Class
4.1 Understanding and Using Roles
4.2 Student Groups
4.3 Backups
4.4 Restoring and Copying Courses
4.5 Reports
Chapter 5: Forums, Chats, and Messaging
5.1 Forums
5.2 Chats
5.3 Messaging
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6: Quizzes
6.1 How to Create a Quiz
6.2 Managing Quizzes
6.3 Quiz Capabilities
6.4 Effective Quiz Practices
Chapter 7: Assignments
7.1 Assignment Types
7.2 Creating Assignments
7.3 Assignment Capabilities
7.4 Managing Assignment Submissions
7.5 Effective Assignment Practices
7.6 Summary
Chapter 8: Glossaries
8.1 Creating Glossaries
8.2 Using Glossaries
8.3 Glossary Capabilities
8.4 Effective Glossary Practices
8.5 Summary
Chapter 9: Lessons
9.1 Creating a Lesson
9.2 Managing Lessons
9.3 Lesson Capabilities
9.4 Effective Lesson Practices
Chapter 10: Wikis
10.1 Creating Wikis
10.2 Managing Wikis
10.3 Wiki Capabilities
10.4 Effective Wiki Practices
Chapter 11: Blogs
11.1 Using Blogs
11.2 Blog Capabilities
11.3 Effective Blog Practices
Chapter 12: Databases
12.1 Creating Databases
12.2 Managing Databases
12.3 Database Capabilities
12.4 Effective Database Practices
Chapter 13: Grades and Scales
13.1 Using Grades
13.2 Creating Scales
13.3 Effective Grade and Scale Practices
Chapter 14: Surveys and Choices
14.1 Surveys
14.2 Choices
14.3 Using Surveys and Choices
Chapter 15: Putting It All Together
15.1 What Is a Learning Environment?
15.2 Course Design Patterns
Chapter 16: Moodle Administration
16.1 Notifications
16.2 Users
16.3 Courses
16.4 Location
16.5 Language
16.6 Modules
16.7 Security
16.8 Appearance
16.9 Front Page
16.10 Server
16.11 Networking
16.12 Reports
16.13 Miscellaneous
16.14 Moodle Support