Using Moodle

by Jason Cole

Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communitiesand for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student university.Teachers who use Moodle have access to an array of powerful tools such as assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. Using Moodle is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that explains how the system works, with plenty of examples and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Authored by a member of the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little-known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users. For anyone who is using-or thinking of using-this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

Genres: Education, Teaching

219 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2005

Reviews

[James]

This is a great desk reference for what moodle is, does, and can do. There is also a"book" app for Android and ipad, but does not seem to work as well as the e-copy for my kindle reader. I keep this on my tablet to use a more detailed and step-by-step tool when using a moodle function I am unfamiliar with. IT is not a very good book to get lesson plans and designs from; for that, I recommend Moodle Teaching Techniques.

[Marc]

A fine tome 'splainin' the free, open source version of expensive the expensive student/course tracker Blackboard

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creating a Moodle course for my Library Science I students so this book has been a great help.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in preparation for GSLIS's launch of Moodle - all ancient history now!

[Teri Temme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent overview of Moodle. Step-by-step instructions - older book, but gave me what I needed.