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A d v a n c e d
M o o d l e
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Creating a Book
To create a book:
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None chapter and sub-chapter titles are not formatted at all, use if you want to define
special numbering styles. For example letters in chapter title type :
A First Chapter, A.1 Subchapter
Define chapter
numbering.
Note that the width of the table of contents is set by the administrator of your site.
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Custom title
Table of
Contents
Note: that the custom title is different to the title in the Table of Contents
Custom titles disabled
Note: that the titles in the table of contents and in the chapter are the same.
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Add a chapter
Titles of chapters appear as links in the Table of Contents to the left of your content. Keep your titles
short.
Enter a chapter title.
Add a chapter
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To add another chapter, click on the Add new chapter icon next to the name of the chapter you just
created in the Table of Contents. The new chapter will be inserted directly after that previous chapter.
Down :
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Click on the Choose or upload a file button then click on Choose next to the webpage you want in your
Files are.
If you havent uploaded the webpage yet to Moodle, you can upload it in the Files area in the window
that just opened. Then click on the Choose next to the webpage.
Tick the Subchapter checkbox if you want the page you're importing to be a subchapter. Click on
Import
Browse to the desired web page or folder of
web pages and import them into your book.
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Note: Relative file links are converted to absolute chapter links. Images, Flash and Java are relinked to.
Remember to upload images and multimedia files as well as html files to your server. Unfortunately
Javascripts, SSI page includes etc will most likely be lost, so be advice is to keep your pages simple and
static.
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Blocks: Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and
the right, with the centre column containing the main course content. Blocks
may be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when
editing is turned on.
Over 25 different block types are available to the teacher (the lecturers
Moodle role) to enable them to provide additional information or
functionality to their learners.
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Settings: Click on Settings block in the Administration block. This settings block has been docked to
the side of the page. The setting block could also be listed with the other blocks to the right of the
content.
When you have finished Editing Course Settings, click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the
page.
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Editing tools
There is a wide amount of editing tools in the WYSIWYG editor for Moodle 2. Below is a brief outline of
the tools that will be used to Shape up your Shell.
Icon
Effect
Icon
Effect
Icon
Effect
Icon
Effect
Insert/Edit image
Insert a new
* table
Moodle Media
Prevent automatic
linking
Paste from
* Word
Insert/edit link
Toggle spellchecker
Unlink
Remove formatting
Paste as Plain
text
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When you click on the images you get a pop up overlay of the associated topic. The overlay looks similar
to how a light box gallery displays (shown below).
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As with all other formats you can swap to another format type without losing the content integrity.
Ease of use for learner
For a learner it is very simple to use as they click to expand, click to collapse. It is very simple.
Plug-in link
https://github.com/PukunuiAustralia/moodle-courseformat_grid
Format 2
Format: Collapsed Topics
Collapsed topics Format for Moodle 2. this is a plug in module that provides an alternative course format
for those who want something different to the standard vertical topics or weekly topics to help remove
the Scroll of death that happens when the page goes on too long. This is a plug-in so you will need to
have your Administrator or Host run a quality assurance debug. Full documentation is available on
moodle.org
What does it do?
The Collapsed Topics course format takes the existing topics from a topics format course, and presents
them in a more compact view. The topics names are shown in a list and each topic can be toggled
open or in its default closed or hidden state. The user simply clicks on the down arrow to expand a
topic, and the up arrow to collapse it.
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You can also expand more than one of the topics at once, as shown below.
As with all other formats you can swap to another format type without losing the content integrity.
Ease of use for learner
For a learner it is very simple to use as they click to expand, click to collapse. It is very simple.
Plug-in link
http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll
Some Random Thoughts
Review: Collapsed Topics course format for Moodle 2.0
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2011/06/14/review-collapsed-topics-format-for-moodle-2-0/
Last Access Date 24 Nov 2011
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Format 3
Format: Slide Format
This format is a very powerful format that can help you to turn your scroll of death course into
something that will create a nested learning experience for your learners. Again as this is a plug-in so
you will need to have your Administrator or Host run a quality assurance debug. Full documentation will
be available on moodle.org
What does it do?
The slides course format is a variation of the topics course format. The format loads all of the topic into
slides which you can then navigate freely through without reloading the page again, as you would have
to if you used topics and focused on one of them. This navigation is nice and smooth with sliding
transitions between topics/slides.
It also provides an overview of all completions on the front slide.
Is it easy for the lecturer/admin to use?
It is quite simple. Once you have the plug-in running in your site click into your course. Go into the
setting block and click edit settings and set the format to slides format and save.
You do need to upload an image into each related topic box (shown below).
Slide Format
You can see the scroll of death is
eliminated and the course slide is
showing the introduction slide, simple
but effective.
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As with all other formats you can swap to another format type without losing the content integrity.
Ease of use for learner
For a learner it is very simple to use as they click to expand, click to collapse. It is very simple.
Plug-in link
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4756
Some Random Thoughts
Review: Slides course format for Moodle 2.0
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2011/06/13/review-slides-course-format-for-moodle-2-0/
Last Access Date 24 Nov 2011
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SECTION 4 Phase 1
Before we begin with playing with formatting to make your course more like a website there are a few
things to do at the outset that will assist you in the deMoodle of your look.
How to remove the Topic Outline words
Step 1
Add a HTML block
Step 2
Name the HTML block Welcome and then open Edit HTML source
Turn on HTML editor and add in HTML
Save changes
Hey Presto as long as this block is open the words will be hidden.
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SECTION 5 Phase 2
Format with HTML
Step 1 Insert a label
Click Add a resource in the Course outline area of your shell and select Label.
in the label
Insert a table
Example Table properties are outlined in the graphic
Using the file picker Search for the image that you need
Once you have located you header image and tweaked its appearance
click insert
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Go back into each book and add place holder content into each chapter as outlined in the below graphic.
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Add a HTML page lower in the course away from the topics you are creating.
Add a table
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Add the header image into the first row of the table by clicking in the table centring the image placement
.
and inserting image
Using the file picker Search for the image that you need
Once you have located you header image and tweaked its appearance click insert
Add content
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Right click on the image you have loaded as your banner and select view image
Past the copied plugin link into the image URL and
forever more the link will work as it is pointing to the
plugin location and not the draft folder location.
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Step 4
Now is the time that you need to remember to link the navigation through ALL your front page as well
as the internal pages of ALL your book modules.
Highlight the navigation word you want to create the hyperlink to.
Save
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The internal of your books should look similar to this example course.
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Hey Presto the magic will have worked and your shell will now be looking like the example below.
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Step 3 Name the group, put in a description if you feel it is necessary. You do not need to worry about
the enrolment key. Click save changes
Step 4 Adding users to the groups. Click on add and remove users.
Step 5 Click on users that you wish to move into the group.
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Step 8 Name the wiki and create the wiki activity framework
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Choose a
group
Step 12 Save. Repeat steps 10 12 as necessary until all groups are assigned. You are creating 1 wiki
but with closed pages so each group will have a separate page in the wiki that the other groups will not
be able to access.
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