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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-putting our activities into web pages


There are various ways to go about this, but the following way is the one that I prefer:

  1. 1. Open up a Word document, Notepad or a similar text editing program into which you can paste some URLs.

  2. 2. Go to Topic 1, and right-click on the first resource or activity.

  3. 3. Click on Properties.

  4. 4. Copy (Ctrl+C) the Address or the URL that will appear, and then paste it (Ctrl+V) into your text document.

  5. 5. In your text document, type a name to remind you which resource or activity the link was for.

  6. 6. Repeat this process with all of the resources and activities in topic 1.

  7. 7. Keep your text document safe, and scroll down to the bottom of the final topic.

  8. 8. Under Add a resource, choose Compose a web page.

  9. 9. Type in an introduction to the topic and paste in the resources and activities hyperlinks from your text document, making sure that they open in a new window.

  10. 10. Save it and display it. It will look something like this:

    Note

    Remember that because...