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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-getting our matching activity into Moodle


We have created the matching activity on our computer. It's now time to have it uploaded into Moodle.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select Add an Activity and then select Hot Potatoes Quiz.

  2. 2. In the Name block, choose Specific text and type in a suitable name for the children to see and click on.

  3. 3. Click on Choose or Upload a file.

  4. 4. Browse your computer and upload the file, as we did for other resources (you can use the .jmt or the HTML version)

  5. 5. Ignore anything that you're not sure about as it is—it's safer!

  6. 6. In the Grades option, if you wish, choose the maximum mark that you want to score the students out of.

  7. 7. In the Grading method drop-down window, if you wish, decide which mark to choose if they have several attempts.

  8. 8. Click on Save and return to course.

What just happened?

Our Hot Potatoes matching exercise is now in Moodle, and ready to be tried out! We uploaded it similar to how we uploaded other resources such as Word-processed...