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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-saving our animation which is ready for Moodle


Now that we have created the animation, it's time to save it. We can later upload the saved animated file into Moodle.

  1. 1. Click on Save (next to the preview arrow in the screenshot above).

  2. 2. Enter the details of your animation and make sure that you select Public.

  3. 3. Click on Save, and then on Share.

  4. 4. From the screen that is displayed next, click on the envelope, as shown in the following screenshot.

  5. 5. Then, click on Copy to copy that code to your clipboard ready for Moodle.

    Note

    If you want to be really clever in Moodle, you could click on the < > button, and it would give you some web code, similar to what we got for our Google Map and Voki. You could paste this web code into a Moodle text page in exactly the same way. However, our students won't be able to do that easily. Thus, we're going to do it their way, in order to show them how.

Have a go hero-setting up our Moodle animation activity

Yes—your turn! After the students...