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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-making our course page look more like a web page


Let's learn how to make our Moodle course page look prettier, and more like a web page.

  1. 1. In the Administration block, click on Settings.

  2. 2. Change the number of topics to one more than you already have (in our case, five).

  3. 3. Save the changes.

  4. 4. Go back to the central section and use the up arrow, to move the blank new topic into the position for Topic 1.

  5. 5. Go back to the Administration block and click on Settings again.

  6. 6. Change the number of topics to one.

  7. 7. Save your changes.

  8. 8. Done! Forget the coffee! Crack open the champagne!

What just happened?

We performed a massive con trick! We made a course with five sections, we made the first section empty and set the next four full of good content. We got Moodle to display only the first one and keep the others out of sight. But just because we set the course to display only one topic, it doesn't mean that the others are gone forever. Our efforts over nine chapters can't be deleted...