Glenys Hanson

Hi there,

I've been wondering if it wouldn't be simpler if the option "Server files" were removed from view in the teacher and student roles. In what circumstances do they really need it?

Cheers,

Glenys

I see - I was mixing up availability for Moodle 2 and being in the core.

I also hadn't realised that lead developers (like Petr) worked on Modules that weren't core or about to be. But I should know better than to make assumptions.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Mary,

I'm happy to say you're a little out of date. Book can be downloaded now for Moodle 2 and seems to work fine:

Colin Fraser - 15 Mar, 10:32 And here it is...and it just slides into Moodle 2.0 easily. This is an excellent job Petr, congratulations.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi everybody,

I've now made a Resources for Language Teachers Glossary to test how this could be used as a collaborative tool for collecting various files and links. In some entries I've uploaded files from my hard disk much as I do to the course files area in 1.9. (yes, I would prefer to do it by "drag and drop" as Don suggests) I notice that doing it this way, I'm forced to be much tidier than I often am in the Course Files area. In theory I put all files in an appropriate folder, but in practice... In a Glossary, everything has to be in an "Article".

The attachments being alligned to the right does look a bit strange - but I'm sure there's a way of fixing that.

This particular Glossary is open to students, but the same could be done in a Glossary only visible to teachers.

I would like to try with a Book* too but that's not yet an option in Lang Teaching. It seems to me a Book would be the best way of making a bunch of files available to students.

Using the File picker to drill down to find where a file "really" is does seem long and laborious, but I don't see why a teacher or a student would normally need to do it. Yes, I'm repeating what Tim has already said.

Cheers,

Glenys

*Book is part of Moodle 2 core, isn't it?

Hello R,

Moodle is a kind of specialised web site, often called a "platform" or a Learning Management System. It "lives" on a server provided by your school, university or company or, alternatively, on a free or commercial hosting site.

It provides a number of activities and resources that teachers can use to create a "virtual classroom" for their students. You've already discovered one of the interactive activities: a forum.

You can write documents in Word and upload them to Moodle for your students to read or download but it's usually better in the long run to create or reacreate them as web pages, in the resource called Book, for example.

If you have already made PowerPoint slide shows, you can convert them to Flash videos which display better on the Internet.

There are also specific "Assignment" activities where students can upload their work for teachers to read and grade.

There are many other activities, interactive activities, you can provide for your students to do individually or collaboratively: doing quizzes, creating glossaries, wikis, databases, blogs...

You don't have to do all this at once in your first course, though.

The person who told you that you "have" to do your next course on Moodle should be giving you some help with this.

There are a lot of free Moodle tutorials (pdf or Flash video - Mary Cooch who answered before me has made some good ones) on the Internet to help you. Here's one:

And that's something else you can do: insert YouTube videos into a forum message.

Cheers,

Glenys