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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how! This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Where does Moodle store our stuff?


Each course in Moodle has its own separate area for storing files such as your worksheets and photographs that you might want to display on the page. Teachers can get to this area (course files) by clicking on Files in the Administration block (students can only see their grades, by the way, and nothing else).

Because we've got nothing in our course yet, this is what we see:

It's a good idea to be organized in your Moodle course, just as you should be with files on your computer, or even paperwork at your home or office. Of course, you could just throw everything at random into this course file storage area, the same way as you'd fling a bill into a drawer in your house. But six months down the line, when every class in your school is using your Moodle daily because you've done it so well, you might regret not having set it up neatly in the first instance! So let's take a moment to do just that.