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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-setting up a discussion forum on Moodle


Let's create an online discussion area for the students to share their views and comments. This discussion area is called the Forum.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, click on Add an activity and select Forum. As a result, the following information will appear on the screen.

  2. 2. In the Forum type field, click on the drop-down arrow and choose Single Simple Discussion (we'll investigate on the other options later).

  3. 3. In the Forum name field, enter some text that will invite your students to click on it to join the discussion.

  4. 4. In the Message field, enter your starting topic, with images and hyperlinks, if you wish.

  5. 5. Change the option Force everyone to be subscribed to Yes, if you want people to get an email every time somebody adds their comments or suggestions to the forum.

  6. 6. Leave the option Read tracking as it is, and people can decide whether to track read or unread messages.

  7. 7. The option, Maximum attachment size lets you decide...