Customer Reviews

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

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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."

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 questions. This book seems to do the job.

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.

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.

Thank you to the authors of Using Moodle! This comprehensive introduction to Moodle is exactly what we needed in my school district. I recommend it to anyone charged with Moodle-related staff development.

Well-done, Fellow Moodlers.

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 you are using the program individually rather than through a company or university network.

I would definitely recommend this book to others.

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. Even my 'techies' found the book to be of little help and resorted to using the Moodle on-line materials

Amazon is an excellent service and the book is helping me understand how to work with Moodle.

Very pleased with the book, its content, and usefulness. Also, pleased with delivery and timing.