Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 -- Table of Contents -- Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Before you start -- Assumptions and prior knowledge -- Why use Moodle to help teach science? -- What does a great science course look like? -- Setting up a Moodle course -- A little bit about roles -- Planning in advance -- Orientation around a Moodle course -- Course settings -- Editing your course -- Resources and activities -- Adding files -- File sizes -- Linking to an external website -- Composing a page -- Ideas for resources -- Blocks -- Administration -- Grouping your learners -- Enabling groups -- Creating groups manually -- Creating groups automatically -- Backing up your courses -- Working offline -- Summary -- 2. Making it Look Great -- Changing the theme -- Switching to a different theme -- Using other themes -- Improving the layout of the course content -- Section titles -- Adding a section title -- Adding labels -- Adding a picture in a label -- Adding a video in a label -- Embedding a YouTube video -- Using other video sites -- Adding your own multimedia -- Multimedia plugins -- Which media formats are supported? -- Using animated GIFs in labels -- Arranging the label content in a table -- Displaying a directory -- Adding content around the side of your course -- HTML block -- Adding widgets to the HTML block -- Linking to another activity in the HTML block -- Adding other content to the HTML block -- RSS feeds -- Summary.

3. Learning through Discussion: Forums, Chat, and Messaging -- Forums -- Setting up a forum -- Subscription mode -- Read tracking and attachments -- RSS feed for this activity -- Post threshold for blocking -- Ratings -- Common module settings -- Restrict availability -- Other creative ways you can use forums -- Moderating forums -- Chat -- Adding a chat -- Group chat -- Other creative ways you can use chat -- Useful tips for using chats -- Guidelines for students using chats -- Messaging -- Sending a message -- Blacklisting users from messaging using roles -- Summary -- 4. Assessing your Learners' Understanding of Science -- Assessment for learning -- Feedback -- The feedback cycle -- Using ratings in forums -- Why use ratings? -- Aggregate of ratings -- Grade scales -- Assignments -- Online text -- Upload a single file -- Advanced uploading of files -- Offline activity -- How to create quizzes -- Question bank -- True or false questions -- Other question types -- Multiple choice -- Short answer -- Numerical questions -- Adding an essay question -- Adding a matching question -- Adding a random short-answer matching question -- Adding an embedded answer (cloze) question -- Adding a simple calculated question -- Calculated questions -- Organizing categories -- Creating the quiz -- Adding questions to the quiz -- Summary -- 5. Monitoring Your Students' Progress -- Checking usage and completion of tasks -- Tracking usage of course materials -- Preparation for course completion reports -- Completion settings for resources -- Completion settings for activities -- Forum activity completion settings -- Quiz activity completion -- Chat activity completion -- Completion tracking for your whole course -- Course completion reports -- Course reports -- Activity report -- View course logs -- Participation report -- Further analysis of activities.

Analysis of quiz results -- Quiz grades -- Responses -- Statistics -- Quiz information -- Quiz structure analysis -- Statistics for question positions -- Manual grading -- Marking and analysis of assignments -- Outcomes -- Using the gradebook -- Viewing grades -- Grader report -- Outcomes report -- Overview report -- User report -- Import and export of grades -- Course grade settings -- Organizing your gradebook -- Categories and items, simple view -- Summary -- 6. Tools for Collaborative Learning -- Working together -- Wikis -- Adding a wiki -- Other wiki settings -- Getting users started on the wiki -- Adding a new page to a wiki -- Comments in wikis -- Using the History tab -- Map -- Ideas for how to use wikis -- Glossary activity -- Adding a glossary -- Glossary RSS feed -- Glossary grade and ratings -- Ideas for glossaries -- Workshops -- Setting up a workshop -- General workshop settings -- Workshop features -- Grading -- Grading strategy -- Submission and assessment settings -- Access control -- Workshop planner -- Edit assessment form -- Adding a sample submission -- Allocating submissions -- Controlling the stages of the workshop -- Viewing the workshop as a pupil -- Grading the workshop -- Other ideas for workshops -- Summary -- 7. Using Mathematical Equations, Animated Molecules, and Creating 'Live' Graphs -- Jmol: an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D -- Using Jmol files -- Setting up the Jmol filter -- Using the Jmol filter in your course -- Looking at examples of molecules -- Embedding and displaying the files -- Adding a 3D molecular model to the course page -- Embedding Jmol files into questions -- TeX notation -- Using LaTeX notation -- DragMath equation editor -- TeX code examples -- Using the DragMath equation editor to create a page with embedded equations -- Adding equations to quiz questions.

TeX for teaching science -- Finding a particular symbol -- TeX Notation glossary -- Creating graphs in Moodle -- Creating graphs using Google docs -- Embedding the graph -- Using 'live' graphs with students -- Summary -- 8. Self-Assessment, Reflection, and Personalized Learning -- Using self-assessment -- Using lessons to provide differentiated personalized learning -- Lesson activity planning -- Adding a lesson activity -- General settings -- Grade options -- Flow control -- Adding question pages -- Clusters -- Branches -- Blogs -- Why use blogs? -- Blogging activities -- Blogs for reflection on learning -- Site blogs vs course blogs -- Site blogs -- Leading by example -- Setting up a course blog -- Publishing a blog -- Accessing and sharing blogs -- Blog menu block -- Comments -- Show them what a good blog is -- Blogs and RSS -- Microblogging -- Summary -- 9. Using Student Voice to Improve your Course -- Eliciting suggestions for course improvement -- Where is the feedback module? -- Using surveys to improve my course -- Expectations at the start of the course -- Why pre-test your students? -- End of unit/topic review -- End of course feedback -- Questions to find out how your course could be even better -- Think about the questions -- Adding a feedback activity -- Setting up the feedback -- Choosing the questions -- Using the suggestions for improvement -- Ask the experts -- Get pupils to rate each topic -- Allow pupils to create quiz questions -- Customizing roles -- Giving a user a new role -- Set up a suggestion box -- Set up a database to collect their favorite links -- Add a database activity -- What other content could I get my learners to create? -- Importing content into your course -- Using Restore -- Community hubs -- Adding a community block to your course -- Summary -- 10. Housekeeping for the New School Year.

Why would you want to reset your course? -- Back up everything -- Anonymize the user data -- Exporting useful data -- Resetting your course -- Reset settings - General -- Reset settings - Roles -- Reset settings-Gradebook and Groups -- Reset settings-Assignments, Chats, Databases, and Feedback -- Reset settings-Forums -- Reset settings-Glossaries -- Reset settings-Lessons, Quizzes, and Wikis -- Tidying up your reset course -- Removing the students -- Editing the Course settings -- Other activities -- Editing the Group settings -- Summary -- 11. Making Moodle Magic -- Contributed modules and plugins -- Book module -- Game module -- Hot Potatoes -- Lightbox -- MRBS block -- Flashcard module -- Nanogong -- Stamp Collection Activity module -- SCORM -- LabSkills -- General SCORM resources -- SCORM creation -- Create content using other websites -- Animoto -- Answer Garden -- Blabberize -- Bubbl.us -- Dipity -- Gliffy -- Glogster -- Google Earth -- Google Moon/Mars -- Juxio -- Mindmeister -- Montage -- Prezi -- Scriblink -- Tagxedo -- Toondoo -- Tubechop -- Twitter -- Voki -- Wallwisher -- Weebly -- Wordle -- Wordpress -- Xtranormal -- Summary -- Index.