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Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System [Paperback]

Jason Cole , Helen Foster
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November 22, 2007 059652918X 978-0596529185 Second Edition

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.

Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:

  • Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course.


  • Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.


  • Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.


  • Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class.


  • Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain.
Using Moodle is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

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About the Author

Jason Cole is currently the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he's responsible for managing a Blackboard implementation that has over 15,000 users. A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system, and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado.

Helen Foster is a Moodle administrator for the site with the most users (over 500,000 with around 1,500 new users daily) - Moodle.org - and is a facilitator for the Using Moodle course, which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen currently works full-time for Moodle as the Community Manager.

Helen has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Second Edition edition (November 22, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 059652918X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596529185
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book for a teacher who would like to know a little bit more about Moodle. The teacher does not need to know much about course management software. This book gives a great overview, with examples, while not getting caught up in the technical details.

For example the Lesson module section starts off with non-Moodle classroom story told by Jason. Then the chapter gives a short overview and talks about the different features of Lesson. There are a couple of inserts on tips and examples of how a feature could be used. Plus a few screen shots.

If you are looking for examples of GIFT or XML formats, then this is not the book for you. On the other hand, after reading the Lesson and Quiz chapters, the potential teacher will know that these are a few of the question formats that can be imported into Moodle.

Moodle documentation and on-line forums are great resources but are not designed for the non-user or really new user. This book will help a teacher ask or find more information about what they want to do in their course. It is "Moodle 101 : An Introduction to teaching with Moodle."
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource January 11, 2008
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An excellent introduction to Moodle -- a course management system I'm teaching myself. Yes, much of the information is available online at the Moodle site, but I'm a person who would rather look through a book as opposed to clicking links online and printing what I require.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to how Moodle can help teachers November 25, 2008
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The original and the best book for teachers wanting to get a handle on how to drive Moodle. What makes this a particularly good book is that Jason and Helen don't just describe how* to do things in Moodle, but they also talk about why you might want to use the various features to enhance your teaching, or, more importantly, the students' learning.
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"Using Moodle" helped get me understand the new program the college will be using and helped get it set up for the students and myself.
Published 14 months ago by M. Watts
4.0 out of 5 stars Using Moodle
This is an excellent book and makes it very easy to use the Moodle program. My only criticism is that I would have liked at least a little information on how to set up Moodle when... Read more
Published on February 6, 2010 by Melanie M. Mornard
4.0 out of 5 stars Excelent
Amazon is an excellent service and the book is helping me understand how to work with Moodle.
Published on October 13, 2008 by Andrea M. M. Lourenco
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Very pleased with the book, its content, and usefulness. Also, pleased with delivery and timing.
Published on June 16, 2008 by Thomas A. Burkman
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for this terrific book
Thank you to the authors of Using Moodle! This comprehensive introduction to Moodle is exactly what we needed in my school district. Read more
Published on May 31, 2008 by Art Lader
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Start for the Uninitiated
I started out muddled over Moodle. I knew I wanted to do some of what this LMS could do, but fairly ignorant and hesitant to jump into the Moodle community to ask the most basic of... Read more
Published on February 28, 2008 by Connie Neal
1.0 out of 5 stars Critique of 'Using Moodle'
I found this book very confusing in almost every respect. It proved to be of very little help in enabling me to design e-learning programmes. Read more
Published on January 2, 2008 by Sean Cowman
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