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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-creating a decision-making exercise (DME)


Let's create a decision making exercise, which will test the decision making skills and spontaneity of the students.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, in the topic section you want, click on Add an activity and then click on Lesson.

  2. 2. In the Name box, give a title to your exercise, on which your students will click on to start the exercise.

  3. 3. For our basic activity, set the Maximum number of answers/branches to 2 and the Maximum grade to 10, as shown in the following screenshot. Use other numbers when you try it out yourself, some other time!

  4. 4. From the Display ongoing score drop-down menu, select Yes.

  5. 5. Ignore everything else! This is just a taster, remember.

  6. 6. Click on Save and Display. You'll get the screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Click on the Add a Branch Table link.

  8. 8. Enter a scene-setting introduction in the Page contents: box, as shown in the following screenshot:

  9. 9. Scroll down and click on the Add...