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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

Other types of questions


For our assessment test, we have used the three simplest types of question. At the start, I did say that there were other types of questions that are also a part of the Moodle. The Moodle quiz is very powerful as it has a lot of potential and a variety of questions; but it is also very complex. I've summarized the other question types here. Some of them you might like to try. Others, I really wouldn't recommend, and would suggest that you look at Hot Potatoes instead:

Question type

What it is

What I think

Calculated

Numbers questions with formulae.

Perhaps more suited to older students.

Description

Not a question—just a space for some text.

You can use it as a passage on which you can base your subsequent questions.

Essay

Space for text and your question, and student gets big space for long answer.

You have to mark this yourself— Moodle can't!

Short answer

The student types in a word or phrase, as his/her answer to your question.

You need to...