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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 — finishing and viewing our DME


Once we're satisfied with the activity, it's time for a final page—rounding it all off. Here's how:

  1. 1. In the Actions block, link your last question page to a Content page.

  2. 2. Prepare the summary as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. In the Description box of Content 1 provide a goodbye comment.

  4. 4. From the Jump drop-down, choose End of lesson and then click the Add a question page link as usual.

  5. 5. On the next screen, click the Preview tab to test that all of the connected pages work. Try the alternative answers—does it all follow on appropriately?

  6. 6. Go to your course page; switch to Student View and check whether the scores work the way they should.

  7. 7. If it all works correctly, give yourself a pat on the back for having made a start in one of Moodle's more advanced activities! Your next step might be to try linking correct and incorrect responses to different pages, allowing you and your students to branch out even further!