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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 — adding a video to a Matching question


Let's look at how to include a video file which our students much watch before they can answer the next question.

  1. 1. Click on Add a question; choose Matching and then click on Next.

  2. 2. For the Question name block, give your question a descriptive name (not number).

  3. 3. For Question text, explain that they have to watch the video and then match up the beginnings and endings of the sentences according to what they saw on the video.

  4. 4. In the text editor toolbar, click the filmstrip icon to upload a video of your own or to link to a video from YouTube, if it is allowed in your school. (We learned how to do this in Chapter 3, Getting Interactive, remember?)

  5. 5. For each question, type a simple question in the Question box, and in the Answer field, type the answer. You need a minimum of three question/answer pairs for the matches to work. It doesn't have to be a proper question or answer. It can be the start and end of a sentence, as we are doing...