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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 a database


Let's create a database to which the students can post their designs.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select the Database option within the Add an Activity option.

  2. 2. In the Name field, provide a suitable title for your database and, in the Introduction block, specify what you want the students to add—in our case, the image file of their campsite design.

  3. 3. Don't worry about any settings that you're not sure of. For now, just click on Save and Display.

  4. 4. Click on the drop-down arrow for the Create a new field field, and select Picture, as shown in the following screenshot.

    Note

    Fields are simply bits of information, such as names, addresses, dates, and so on.

  5. 5. In the Field Name field, enter a suitable title for the field and in the Field Description field, enter what you want the student to do (such as upload their campsite design). Set the image size, if you wish, by entering a width and height in pixels next to the Width and Height fields.

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