Fenando, this is a deep question, very complex and is far from trivial.
It seems you are wanting to do more than just a content dump online. (well done!!) Quick comments and thjoughts follow. I'll start with the important question: are you sure Moodle is the best platform? If you are tied into it, then the question is settled. The basic fact is that is is easy to add premade content, just X number of uploads where X is the number of items. However this is rarely educationally sound . . . as you suggest in your post.
1. It is a while since I used Indesign, but it now has powerful options to export for web. But I think this is a job for a professional. You will have to decide if you deploy as web pages or PDF.
I recommend that you check to see if PDF files from ID could merely be saved as HTML and uploaded. Indesign may be smart enough to have ONE source and two outputs, print and web. The nirvana we have all been looking for since XML and docbook came onto the scene.
2. At the moment I am doing a small job for a publisher deploying in a Moodle course over 1000 items: powerpoint files, SWF alternatives and PDF fragments from Book + workbook. ie a kind of messy transition between paper and web. They have actually reformatted the book (I think it is in Indesign) for the web by making the pages a different shape. The plan: sell the zipped course file to schools using the text book. Think about your business model if it is relevant.
3. It is on my to do list to post a question about: what are the workflows for course creation that people use now Moodle 2 is into it's third iteration? There are no multiple file upload options still. What is REALLY cool is the display description check box. Last week I asked Tim what the progress was on the OU workflow for 2.0 (they have some really cool workflows) but they are too busy at the moment to consider making it available. I suspect many of the bigger users of Moodle do use SCORM or the other uploadable things. I really must figure out what an IMS common cartidge is like and what it can do. The Moodle docs page is here http://docs.moodle.org/dev/IMS_common_cartridge, but is a little out of date and the latest I can find here http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/IMS_Common_Cartridge_import but it is just a stub.
4. If you have any plans to include Moodle questions, then there are import possilities from files, ie you don't have to create questions individually using the forms. Indesign questions > Importable files should not be too hard. I'm happy to look at one file if you like. If you go this way, save yourself some angst: get help to do the rouotine work. Hire someone from your whanau to just hack in and create the files from the pages. If you can, pay in carbohydrates.
5. Lesson may be one way to go in Moodle, But I have no idea if there is a quick way to create one. http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Lesson_module
You have many variables to consider: time to develop vs time saving with self marking and learner autonomy. Reuse options: do you make something slightly more 'generic' meaning others can use it and dare I say contribute $$ or time. What is passable and what is really contributing to learning goals. I actually feel a blog post coming on here.
My preferred method in this case that suits MY style, given the sparse information in your question:
- Decide on a time budget, approach and workflow.
- Know your audience.
- Establish goals, asessment, outlines.
- Set up the content, forums, groups well in advance according to your course plan, goals - preferably the whole course.
- Plan weekly activities including quizzes, and work on these three weeks in advance using the current feedback from the class to help inform your future design. Use some paid help for mass deployment.
- Enlist your class in active feedback.
- Tweak the material as you go ready for next year.
- Keep really really good notes on how it goes.
- Build in breaks for you and the students.
- Remember to keep your teaching and non-teaching in balance.
-Derek
Good luck!!!!
