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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

Controlling the learning path with Conditional Activities


Conditional Activities is Moodle's fancy name for locking items down and only showing them to pupils under certain conditions. If your Moodle admin has enabled Conditional access along with Completion tracking, then at the end of each resource and activity we've set up, you will have noticed some settings like this:

Note

If your admin tells you everything is enabled sitewide, but you still don't see the settings, you can enable Completion tracking for your course in Settings | Course administration | Edit settings.

Until now, I've just said to ignore these settings. Now, however, we are going to use them to control what our children see and when.

We're going to follow our colleague, Stuart Gorse, who is teaching his nine year olds the French names of animals. He has a video he wants them to watch. After watching the video, they have to do an online text assignment and after the assignment, as a treat, they can play a SCORM Fling the...