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History Teaching with Moodle 2

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History Teaching with Moodle 2

Overview of this book

Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is coming to be used in more and more schools worldwide. History and Moodle complement each other perfectly in terms of content and delivery. This book will show you how to set up tasks and activities that will enable your students to forge a greater understanding of complex issues, bringing History into the 21st century.History Teaching with Moodle 2 presents new and exciting ideas for the delivery of History content making use of tried-and-trusted methods of teaching the subject. By following a sample course, you will find it easy to transform your existing lesson plans into a Moodle course that will become even more efficient, attractive, and useful over time. Make the past come to life using a range of tasks and activities that can consolidate learning for some, enhance understanding for others, and enthuse all. Learn how to add an RSS feed to your home page to display daily 'On this day in history' posts. Create a one-minute quiz about how the Second World War began. Post video footage of a trip to a castle and set some questions for students in anticipation of their next visit. Set up a wiki so that student groups can create their own story about 'murder at a monastery'. Moodle's built-in features allow students to get a better grasp of historical concepts and will rejuvenate their interest in the subject.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we have taken a look at the quiz module. We have created different types of quizzes with a variety of question types. We have created a question bank for a course and organized the question bank into categories.

What happens to all the quiz attempts that students make and all of the essay questions and short answer questions that require marking by a teacher? That is where the gradebook comes in.

In the next chapter, we shall look in detail at the Gradebook and how it interacts with quizzes and other activities. We shall see how to mark essay questions in quizzes and assignments and how it simulates online marking as used by many examination boards at the moment. We shall see how it simulates the markbook that is central to any teacher's organization and as with any Moodle module, how it can be used to make the teacher's job easier and more productive.