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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-adding image links to our topic sections


Let's learn how to add images into our Moodle course, which when clicked will take you to a new web site.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, click on the editing icon for Topic 0.

  2. 2. In the toolbar, click on the Insert Table icon, located to the left of the smiley.

  3. 3. If you're copying my layout, choose 2 columns and 4 rows. Choose 0 for border, cell spacing, and padding.

  4. 4. Click on the Full Screen Editor icon located at the bottom of the screen, on the far right.

  5. 5. Click in the upper-left cell.

  6. 6. Click on the image icon and insert your first topic image. Centre by using with the HTML editor centering icon.

  7. 7. In the cell directly below the image icon, add the topic name and centre it.

  8. 8. Repeat this with the other three images and topic titles, as shown in the following screenshot:

  9. 9. Click the Full Screen Editor icon again to close it and save changes.

What just happened?

We went into the editing area of Topic 0 and created a table, into...