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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

Chapter 9. Advanced tips and tricks

This chapter gives a taste of Moodle level two! It looks at how we can use the more advanced features of Moodle, plus some optional features, to enhance our teaching further. The previous chapters contained everything that you need to build and run a fully interactive Moodle course. However, once you're familiar with those resources and activities, you might want to read the following pages to stretch your skills a little more.

In this chapter, we're going to complete our course by:

  • Challenging our students' newly acquired knowledge through a decision making exercise

  • Ensuring their learning continues, even after the end of the unit, by giving them links to the latest rivers and flooding news

We're going to find out how we can use Moodle's optional extras to:

  • Get the students to complete the evaluation of an entire course, to help us review it for the next year

  • Present the students with a certificate of success

And finally, we're going to:

  • Revamp our course homepage...