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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

Rewarding our students efforts with a certificate


Who doesn't like getting a certificate? All students, and usually boys who play it cool and pretend not to be bothered, actually feel proud to be recognized for their achievements. So having Moodle produce a personalized certificate will give them a real buzz, whether they admit it or not. Why not try to get the optional certificate module for your Moodle? You decide the criteria for students obtaining the certificate, and you can customize its appearance. Once the student has been awarded the completion certificate, the student clicks on a link in the course home page to receive his/her certificate as a pdf file—which they can save or print. Do you remember Joe from Chapter 8, who claimed that he couldn't work on Moodle as he didn't have MS Word? Even he made it to the end, and here's his certificate to prove it:

A nice touch, isn't it? The certificate can be made even more attractive if you spend some time on it. You can alter the color...