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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

Evaluating our course with a Moodle questionnaire


It is important for our own professional development that we constantly strive to improve our teaching, and adapt it according to our successes and setbacks. For this, we need the input of our students (it's the Student Voice concept, for which Moodle is perfectly suited). We could use Moodle's Choice activity module as a very basic survey. But the issue with this is that the pupils are able to respond to only single word, or short phrase suggestions that we give them. If we want a more detailed evaluation of our efforts in Moodle, the optional Questionnaire module fits the bill perfectly, as we can include choice-type option button answers and also give them free rein to comment in the text boxes. And don't think that just because the students haven't reached double figures, they aren't capable of giving insightful opinions!

There seems little point in going step-by-step through the operation of a Questionnaire if your Moodle doesn't have...