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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

Choosing the best file type for Moodle


As I said earlier, uploading our worksheets into Moodle isn't as simple as we first thought. The situation could be such that we've got Word 2010, but our students only have Word 2003. It could also be that we've got Word 2007, and the students don't have any version of Microsoft Office at all. Or they only have Microsoft Office created documents on their computer, but do not have Microsoft Office installed. Using LibreOffice can be very helpful to you in such cases. However, as teachers there is another possibility.

Our colleague, Liz, wants to know the best way to display her worksheets in Moodle, without much effort. Her worksheets are a mixture of .doc, .odt, and .docx depending on the computer she works on. As she wants the students to only view her materials and not download or edit them, what I'd suggest to her is that she save her material as .pdf files.

Note

PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is a type of file that works on different...