Mary Cooch

• allow for a website of static pages to be set up - YES
  
• allow a payment method to be integrated into the site and tied into, what I assume, is a database that keeps track of users YES
  
• break one course up into 15 chapters, all with its own quiz YES
  
• the chapters be supported with PowerPoint presentations YES (athough users would have to have Powerpoint installed or a viewer and there are better ways to present material online than Ppt, but, in short, yes)
  
• allow for a final test, which will automatically generate a certificate to be emailed to the user YES (but you need to install an add-on module, the certificate module)
  
• allow for customer to track where they are in the course/chapter SORT OF (they can view their grades to see where they are up to but the ability for them to "tick off" work completed will be available in the next version of Moodle out next summer)
  
• protect the content to prevent downloading/sharing/piracy NO (the course should be accessible only to those enrolled so the whole world won't see it - but if you have an unscrupulous customer there are ways they can download the content - certainly if you put on powerpoints they have to download them to view them - hence my suggestion you look for a different way to present. And whichever methods you use to prevent downloading there is nothing to stop desperate people taking screencasts or screenshots of the course anyway. This isn't merely Moodle; anything on the internet will be the same. Do the best you can to protect your stuff and then live with the fact it can never be 100% secure.)
  

(greetings from Lancashire ) Why not include the wmv file in your quiz as the first section of it? If it's a wmv make sure you have multimedia filters enabled in site admin (so you get wmvs in their own player) and then when you make your quiz for your first question select the "description" type. This just gives you a text box (html editor) like here where you can add information about your quiz. So type in a few blank spaces, select these with your cursor,click on the "link" icon and then make it link to the wmv you will have uploaded to your course. When you have saved this question it will show a player like youtube with your wmv in. Make your other questions as normal and then when people click on your quiz they will first see and watch the video and then be presented with the questions. If the video player is too small then at the end of its url (in the url box of the popup when you click on the link icon) just add to the end of it (after wmv) ?=700x500 or whatever numbers you want to be the size of your video.

HI Carol - sorry I can't help with the Taskmagic (although I do know the program and its maker) but I can say that Hotpotatoes accepts images, sound and video files  -in fact it is truly interactive -if you go on their website there are tutorials explaining how to add images etc. You can then get the whole package to work inside Moodle and record the score.

Go to your front page site admin and look at users>permissions>assign system roles and take out the teachers who are assigned in there. Then assign them the role of teacher only in the courses they teach - if that doesnt solve, it , come back

Hi there. Would you like to post in the Using Moodle area of this site as those forums are for technical help whereas this is more for social chat?