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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-getting students to create their own Glossary


Let's create a Glossary where the students will be able post their suggestions. This will help us in understanding their choices.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select the Glossary option, within the Add an activity option.

  2. 2. Provide a suitable name for the glossary in the Name field, and describe what the glossary's about in the Description text block.

  3. 3. There are many options that you can specify for a glossary. To start with, just leave them as they are shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    If you want to moderate entries before they appear in the glossary, choose No in the Approved by default field. If you want to let students comment on entries, choose Yes in the Allow comments box.

  4. 4. Click on Save and display.

What just happened?

We've set up an area on Moodle where our class students can add their suggested names for the campsite. We're using a Glossary which we could—under other circumstances—use as a collaborative...