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Packt books have published Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide by Ian Wild. This book promises to help teachers and trainers get "existing teaching material online quickly and easily".

Getting your teaching material online quickly and easily depends on what material you want to put online, and how much of it you have. But you can certainly use Moodle Course Conversion to make the process quicker and easier.

Moodle Course Conversion is written in plain English. It's laid out simply, and takes you through what you need to know on a step-by-step basis. It doesn't get over-excited about the bells and whistles. It gets stuck in right at the start with what you need to know about Moodle and what you need to do to get your course online.

Chapter 1 covers the basics - Moodle history, logging on, editing your profile, deciding your role, and moodle themes.

From Chapter 2, you're creating your courses. You learn about course structure and format, enrolling students and assigning teaching roles.

Chapter 3 focuses on adding documents and handouts, while chapter 4 deals with including multimedia content.

There's lots more - with advice and practical tutorials on everything from how to communicate effectively online to setting and marking assignments.

The book is NOT aimed at techies who are setting Moodle up from scratch. It's for teachers, trainers and lecturers who want to (or are being forced to) convert existing materials for Moodle.

Best way to get a handle on whether or not you like this book's style is to read over the sample chapter pdf you can download from here: http://www.packtpub.com/files/moodle-course-conversion-beginner-guide-sample-chapter-5-moodle-makeover.pdf

You can also learn more about the book here: http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-course-conversion/book. Packt have other Moodle books - I can't vouch for them, but you can visit http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-books to check them out for yourself.