In learning how to create a DME with a Lesson and how to add the latest news with an RSS block, we looked at two slightly more advanced features of Moodle. There are many more features that Moodle has to offer to enhance our teaching, but not all of them are available on the standard Moodle web site that most schools have installed. However, if you have a sympathetic Moodle Administrator who has complete control of your Moodle installation, it is very easy to plug-in extra options that can be very useful and also a lot of fun. One Moodler has compared Moodle to a Lego set. You start with the basic building bricks and then, as you become more experienced, you can add different types of bricks to fulfill different functions.
The next section will teach you what you can do with some of the extra plug-ins available on the main Moodle site, http://www.moodle.org. The following table suggests a handful of plug-ins that I've found work well with children...