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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-set up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents


Let's create a quiz to test our students' knowledge about the World's rivers in a timed assessment.

  1. 1. In the Name block, type a name for your quiz that the pupils will see, and click on.

  2. 2. In the Description block, enter a description of the quiz.

  3. 3. Select your options for the quiz in the boxes that follow—if in doubt, leave them the way they are; it's quite safe!

  4. 4. Use the following table to help you make your choices (for our test, we need to set the timer as well as a password).

    Item

    What it is

    What I think

    Timing

    Set start, end, and length of test—we've seen this before.

    Select Enable time limit for them to see a clock as they work.

    Display

    How it will look on the page.

    Keep it at Unlimited. The students then scroll down to see all the questions.

    Attempts

    How many attempts they get, and if they will be penalized for extra attempts.

    For tests, set it to 1 attempt. Set Adaptive mode to No and don't...