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

~ Jason Cole (Author), Helen Foster (Author)
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Developed by an extremely active Open Source community, Moodle is a popular course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 190 countries with support for more than 70 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student university.

Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for an array of activities, such as forums, messaging, quizzes, assignments, wikis, blogs and databases.

Using Moodle is a comprehensive, hands-on guide, with plenty of examples, screenshots, best practices and suggestions for using Moodle tools effectively -- and creatively. Authored by members of the Moodle community, this authoritative book, updated for Moodle 1.8, also explains the new roles and permissions system. If you're using -- or thinking of using -- this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

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.


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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (November 15, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 059652918X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596529185
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #148,466 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What can Moodle Do? Good book for context and ideas, June 2, 2008
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Start for the Uninitiated, February 28, 2008
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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.
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6 of 7 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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4.0 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... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Melanie M. Mornard

5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to how Moodle can help teachers
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... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Timothy Hunt

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 17 months ago by Andrea M. M. Lourenco

5.0 out of 5 stars Using Moodle: Teaching with the popular open source course management system
Very pleased with the book, its content, and usefulness. Also, pleased with delivery and timing.
Published 21 months ago 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 21 months ago by Art Lader

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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