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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-adding a link to the audio file


Want your Moodle course to display your audio file as shown in the following screenshot? Follow the instructions under the screenshot! Let's see how to upload Jamie's podcast into the course files of your Moodle course.

  1. 1. Click on the Turn editing on button.

  2. 2. Under Add a Resource, select Label.

  3. 3. Type in some words to introduce the MP3 file and then press the space bar a few times.

  4. 4. Select that empty space, as shown in the following screenshot. Yes, really! Trust me!

  5. 5. Click on the Insert Web Link icon on the toolbar to create a hyperlink, as shown in the previous screenshot. The white space is highlighted in my screenshot, and I'm about to link it to the podcast.

  6. 6. In the dialog box that comes up, navigate to the course file for your audio recording (Jamie's poem, in our case) and select it.

  7. 7. Click on OK, and then click on Save and Return to Course.

  8. 8. Hey Presto! One really cool player with hardly any effort at all!

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