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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-saving a Rivers homework as a pdf file for ease of access on Moodle


As we know, not everybody will have the MS Office software installed on their computer. Thus, for the files that we want the users to only read and not edit, we can save the file as a PDF file. Let's learn how to do this.

  1. 1. Open OpenOffice on your computer (you might have an icon on the desktop).

  2. 2. Click on Open a document... and browse and select the file that you want to open using the OpenOffice software just as you would for Moodle.

  3. 3. The file will open up in OpenOffice.

  4. 4. Click on File and then click on Export as PDF, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. 5. On the next screen, click on Export.

  6. 6. Select where you want the file saved to, and then click on Save.

What just happened?

We used a built-in feature of OpenOffice to create a different version of Liz's homework sheet, which can be read on many different types of computer. We opened up the document (that had been created in Microsoft Word 2007...