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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-making a matching question


Let's create an exercise—based on a matching question—on Moodle.

  1. 1. Click on Create new, and choose Matching.

  2. 2. In the Question name block, give your question a descriptive name (not number!).

  3. 3. In the Question text block, explain what they have to match up.

  4. 4. For each question, type a simple question in the Question block, and in the Answer field, type the answer. You need a minimum of three question/answer pairs for the matches to work. It doesn't have to be a proper question or answer—check out the one on rivers, here:

  5. 5. Save the question.

  6. 6. Add it to the quiz area, in a way similar to how you did for the previous two exercises.

What just happened?

We now (at last!) have a Moodle quiz, with three different types of questions. We had to set it up first, and then add the questions, one by one, choosing the type we wanted. The questions can be used again and may be accessed by any teacher in that course.

To re-order the questions, we just click on...