Название: Moodle 1.9 Math
Автор: Ian Wild
Издательство: Packt Publishing
Год: 2009
ISBN: 9781847196446
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 276
Размер: 12,7 mb
Язык: English

Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges.

The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities.

Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You'll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle.

Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease.

What You Will Learn

• Convert mathematics teaching over to Moodle
• Enhance your course with interactive graphs, images, videos, and audio
• Integrate interactive presentations and explore different ways to include them in your course
• Create your own SCORM activities using both free and commercial tools
• Add rich animation and fun games by incorporating Flash games and activities for engaging your students
• Build feature-rich quizzes and set online assignments
• Monitor student progress and assess your teaching success
• Configure Moodle to display the complete set of mathematical symbols and objects