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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 an online creative writing exercise


For our advert, we'll use an Online text assignment. We'll have a look at the others, afterwards.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select online text option, within Assignments.

  2. 2. In the Assignment name field, enter something descriptive—our students will click here to get to the task.

  3. 3. In the Description field, enter the instructions. Our screen will then appear as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    If you need more space to type in, click on the icon on the far right of the bottom line of the HTML editor. This will enlarge the text box for you. Click it again when you're done, to return to the editing area.

  4. 4. In the Grade field, enter the total marks out of which you will score the students (for now, we're sticking to a maximum of 100, but you can change this).

  5. 5. Set a start and end date between which the students can send the work assigned to them, if you want.

  6. 6. Leave the Prevent Late Submissions option as it is, unless...