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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-improving the look of our course page


Currently, our course page doesn't look very pleasant to the eye. Let's make it a little more interesting.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, go to Add a resource and choose Insert a label.

  2. 2. Type in some text in order to separate or categorize a number of worksheets.

  3. 3. Finally, click on Save and return to course.

What just happened?

We added a description of the worksheets in the provided white space known as Label. It seems to be very nice, but the description has appeared underneath the names of the rivers when we wanted it in between. Check out the icons next to each of the resources when editing is turned on. They all have an important role to play in editing the material on our page.

One of the listed icons will enable us to move the label to where we want it (by default, every time you add a resource on a Moodle page, it goes under the previous one). Here is a table that briefly explains what each icon does. Look out for the one that...