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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
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Preface

Time for action — giving students a chance to choose a winner


The students have posted their suggestions, comments, and views on Moodle. A choice is to be made of the best suggestion. Who better than the students themselves to choose and vote for the best?

  1. 1. With editing turned on, click on Add an activity and then select Choice.

  2. 2. In the Name field, enter an appropriate descriptive text—in our case, this is Vote for the best design here.

  3. 3. In the Choice text field, ask the question based on what you want the students to cast a vote for. If you want this to show on the main course page, check the Display description on course page box.

  4. 4. Leave the Limit field as it is if you don't mind any number of students casting a vote for any option available. Change it to enable, if you only want a certain number of people to vote for a particular choice. We shall leave the Limit block as it is, but we shall inform the students that they can't vote for themselves.

  5. 5. In the Options boxes, type in the...