Now, this is progress. At the start of the chapter, we had barely learned how to upload what we already had, and now we are thinking of typing straight into Moodle. But hold on—why should we bother? We're pretty proficient in MS Word, and with each upload we do, we take less time to do it.
Remember the introduction, where I said that this chapter was about saving energy—ours and the world's. Actually, it can also be about saving the children's energy, and even avoiding their frustration. If we go back to our course page and click on one of our worksheets, what happens? Depending on the browser that is being used—in this case Internet Explorer (IE) —we get a pop-up dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:
Here, having already clicked on the link, we are being asked to make a choice between three options. If we choose Open, we will have to wait for a while, for the file to open. So that's two clicks and a wait. For a...