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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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! This book 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. 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. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Time for action-displaying our factsheet on our course page


To get the Moodle course started, we need to create a link that—when clicked, will get the course started, carrying on from where we left off:

  1. 1. Click on the word Choose to the right of your worksheet. (We are choosing to put this on Moodle.)

  2. 2. The River Thames worksheet now shows in the Location box, under Link to a file or web site. We are almost there!

  3. 3. Scroll down and make sure that you have selected the New window option in the Window box, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. At the bottom of the screen, click on Save and return to course. Done!

    Note

    The option Search for web page would take you to Google or another search engine to find a web site. You could put that web site into the location box instead, and it would make a clickable link for your students to follow.

What just happened?

Congratulations! You’ve now made a link to the factsheet about the River Thames that will get our Rivers and Flooding course started! By...