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Moodle E-Learning Course Development
by William Rice
from Packt Publishing

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Mostly Worthless
  I found this book to be little more than the help that is already included in Moodle. There are a lot of screenshots, but very few have callouts, so they're not nearly as helpful as visuals could be -- however, the images take up about half of the book. At around 230 pages, half of that screenshots, I expected more for a $40 (list) book.

• Plain, clear and exhaustive
  I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses and lessons, as well as good examples. Everything is written in a language just one level above a layman - which means that even a computer semi-troglodyte like me can understand even the setup part easily, and... more info

• Great for the right need
  The book is a well written solid book that has clear and fairly complete examples on using Moodle. The book is ideal for the user who has just started, or will start using Moodle to teach a course. The book doesn't cover installation or administration - and doesn't claim to. The book doesn't cover advanced educational methodologies - Moodle Teaching Techniques by the same author will.
  If you are a Moodle administrator, recommend this book to your beginning instructors, but you won't need it. If you... more info

• Pretty good
  I have to be fair and admit that I haven't read the whole book. I have skimmed it, and read some parts very carefully. It is a fairly good guide to this learning program, but it's a steep learning curve for a non 'techie.' I am a teacher who is looking to put coursework on line. A note in the beginning to start with chapter three would have been very helpful here. As it is, the book has convinced me that it would take me considerable time to use this program. I was hoping for short cuts, and instead, the... more info

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