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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By : Mary Cooch
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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By: Mary Cooch

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!Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds 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. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.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. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — uploading a factsheet on to Moodle


We need to get the worksheet uploaded into Moodle. To do this, we have to follow a few simple steps.

  1. 1. Go to your course page and click on the Turn editing on button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Don't worry about all of the new symbols (icons) that appear. In the section you want the worksheet to be displayed in, look for these two boxes:

  3. 3. Click on the Add a resource... box (I'll go through all its options when we have a recap, later).

  4. 4. Select File.

  5. 5. In Name, type the text that you want the students to click on, and in Description add a short description. (Depending on your Moodle admin, you might be able to leave this out or you might have to add one). Check the box Display description on course page if you want your description to be shown. The following screenshot gives an example of this:

  6. 6. Once you're done with the previous steps, click on Add. This takes you to what Moodle calls the File picker.

    Note

    File picker...