Using Moodle book
Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series.
The first edition of the book, released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and Helen Foster, and due for release in November 2007, has been updated for Moodle 1.8.
Book download
The first edition of Using Moodle is available for download as PDF.
- Table of Contents (8 pages)
- Preface (4 pages)
- Chapter 1 Introduction p. 1 (6 pages)
- Chapter 2 Moodle Basics p. 7 (26 pages)
- Chapter 3 Creating and Managing Content p. 33 (18 pages)
- Chapter 4 Using Forums, Chats and Dialogues p. 51 (20 pages)
- Chapter 5 Quizzes p. 71 (24 pages)
- Chapter 6 Workshops p. 95 (20 pages)
- Chapter 7 Assignments and Exercises p. 115 (12 pages)
- Chapter 8 Journals p. 127 (10 pages)
- Chapter 9 Glossaries p. 137 (12 pages)
- Chapter 10 Lessons p. 149 (12 pages)
- Chapter 11 Wikis p. 161 (12 pages)
- Chapter 12 Grades and Scales p. 171 (6 pages)
- Chapter 13 Managing Your Class p. 177 (10 pages)
- Chapter 14 Surveys and Choice p. 187 (6 pages)
- Chapter 15 Putting It All Together (Class Design) p. 193 (8 pages)
- Chapter 16 Server Administration p. 201 (6 pages)
- Index p. 217 (4 pages)
Book excerpts
Jason Cole has kindly allowed us to freely use excerpts from Using Moodle in this documentation wiki. If you do use it on a page then please add the [[Template:excerpted from Jason Cole]] at the bottom of the page.
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