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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

Time for action-setting up the course files area


Let’s learn how to set up a course file area where we can neatly arrange all the files needed for the course.

  1. 1. In the Administration block, click on Files.

  2. 2. Click on Make a folder.

  3. 3. In the box that follows (as shown in the following screenshot), type in images.

  4. 4. You'll be taken to the course files area, where you will see your folder called images.

  5. 5. Click on your course's short name to return to the main page.

What just happened?

We made a folder in the course files storage area, which is now ready to receive any image that we want to display on our Moodle page. We have to do this because we can neither just directly copy and paste them onto our course pages, nor upload them directly onto the course page. We have to upload them first to the storage area, and then decide where and how to display them on the page. (It's important to understand this because it means that you can always keep some worksheets in storage before actually displaying them on your page, if you want). In Chapter 2, we'll make another folder for our worksheets. From now on, when we need to transfer items from our own computer (or USB drive), we'll put them straight into an appropriately-named folder to make it easier for us (or any other teacher sharing our course) to locate them later.

Note

Folders can have any name of your choice. You can name them after the topics; you can divide them up into Word-processed documents and slideshows, or each teacher can have his or her own individual folder. It doesn't matter, as long as you have a system!