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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've started assembling work for our classes in Moodle. We've looked at saving time and energy by:

  • Getting individual worksheets into Moodle for our students (so we don't have to keep printing them)

  • Getting whole folders of work into Moodle (instead of uploading them one at a time)

  • Making quick and easy links to web sites

  • Creating a worksheet from scratch in Moodle, instead of doing this offline and then uploading the worksheet

Additionally, we've also provided tips on improving the appearance of the course by:

  • Showing work in a folder instead of showing everything separately in a list

  • Breaking up the work into chunks by using a label

  • Moving items around the page

Setting up this web page was just the beginning. If we can do that, it's only one tiny step further to getting our students to learn interactively and to send us their work within Moodle. That's where we're heading in the next chapter.