In learning how to create a DME with a Lesson, and in setting access conditions on our activities, we looked at two slightly more advanced features of Moodle. There are many more features that Moodle has to offer to enhance our teaching, but not all of them are available on the standard Moodle website that most schools have installed. However, if you have a sympathetic Moodle administrator who has complete control of your Moodle installation, it is very easy to plugin extra options that can be very useful and also a lot of fun. One Moodler has compared Moodle to a Lego set. You start with the basic building bricks and then, as you become more experienced, you can add different types of bricks to fulfill different functions.
The next section will outline what you can do with some of the extra plugins available on the main Moodle site, http://www.moodle.org. The following table suggests a handful of plugins that I've found work well with children...