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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

Making our page look prettier


Is this really important? Shouldn't we be getting on with all of the other activities that Moodle can offer? Yes we should, and we shall, but it is vital that we make our course page appeal to the students. I cannot stress this enough. We have looked at this in Chapter 1, Getting Started, when we set our course up, and now that we've got topics with worksheets, folders, hyperlinks, and web pages that are starting to fill the screen space, it's worth looking at it again. We really need to ensure that our classes don't just take one look and run. Long pages of writing are sure to turn the users off.

How do you think the users might react to a Moodle page that appears as shown in the following screenshot?

Even though it looks like a nice picture, the arrangement of the worksheets doesn't seem very pleasant to the eyes. We can do two things to improve it:

  • Put them into a folder and show only that folder (Folder)

  • Add a bit of white space between the worksheets to separate...