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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

Chapter 9. Advanced Tips and Tricks

This chapter gives a taste of Moodle level two! It looks at how we can use the more advanced features of Moodle to enhance our teaching further. The previous chapters contained everything that you need to build and run a fully interactive Moodle course. However, once you're familiar with those resources and activities, you might want to read the following pages to stretch your skills a little more.

In this chapter, we're going to complete our course by:

  • Challenging our students' newly acquired knowledge through a decision-making exercise

  • Getting the students to complete the evaluation of an entire course to help us review it for the next year

We're going to find out how we can use Moodle's optional extras to:

  • Direct their learning step by step so that they move on only when we feel they're ready to tackle the activities

  • Give them certificates, word games, photo galleries, and more

And finally, we're going to:

  • Revamp our course homepage to make it look more like...