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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 game to work in Moodle's grade book


Now that we have created the game and downloaded it into our computer, let's get the game uploaded into Moodle.

  1. 1. With Editing turned on, click on Add an activity... option.

  2. 2. Choose the option SCORM/AICC.

  3. 3. You'll get a screen with the options that we've never come across before. Don't panic!

  4. 4. Scroll to Choose or Upload a file, and upload your Fling the Teacher zipped folder (NewOrleans.zip) into the course files in the same way as we've done for other zipped folders in this chapter.

  5. 5. Do not unzip it! Click on Choose, and it will be displayed in the Package file field, as shown in the following, rather long, screenshot.

  6. 6. Set your options to be the same as the ones shown in the preceding screenshot (if you're missing some options, click on Advanced to reveal them).

Note

SCORM types of activity, like this one, need several files to work, and are quite complex. Fortunately, we don't need to understand any of those files...