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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By : Mary Cooch
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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

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By: Mary Cooch
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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!Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds 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. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.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. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
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First impressions
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Time for action — customizing our course page
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Making changes on the course page
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Time for action — moving, adding, and deleting blocks
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Making our own side blocks in Moodle
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Time for action — configuring an HTML block
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Customizing the middle section
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Brightening up the course page with images
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Time for action — uploading images to our Moodle page
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Adding links to other websites in Moodle
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Time for action — making a click here link to a website
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Summary
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Adding Worksheets and Resources
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Adding Worksheets and Resources
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Putting a worksheet on Moodle
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Time for action — uploading a factsheet on to Moodle
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What can you pick from the File picker?
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Putting a week's worth of slideshows into Moodle
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Time for action — getting a whole folder of work into Moodle in one go
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Making a 'click here' type link to the River Thames website
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Recap—where do we stand now?
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Making a multimedia worksheet about flooding, directly in Moodle
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Time for action — typing our flooding worksheet straight into Moodle
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Online worksheets—some ideas to consider
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Making our page look prettier
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Time for action — improving the look of our course page
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Summary
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Getting Interactive
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Getting Interactive
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How do we do all this?
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Getting our class to reflect and discuss
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Time for action — setting up a discussion forum on Moodle
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Carrying on the conversation in real time—outside of school
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Time for action — setting up a chat room in Moodle
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Making our own class Glossary
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Time for action — getting students to create their own Glossary
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Showcasing the plans in a database
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Time for action — setting up a database
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How far have we come?
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Giving our class a chance to vote
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Time for action — giving students a chance to choose a winner
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Writing creatively in Moodle
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Time for action — setting up an online creative writing exercise
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Time for action — marking students' work on Moodle
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Collaborative story-telling
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Time for action — getting our class to work together on an online story
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Summary
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Self-marking Quizzes
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Self-marking Quizzes
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Forget the paper
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Hot potatoes—cool learning
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Time for action — getting a program to create our self-marking activities
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Time for action — matching rivers to continents with the JMatch Hot Potato
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Time for action — getting our matching activity into Moodle
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Consolidating knowledge with Hot Potatoes activities
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Time for action — creating a self-marking gap-fill exercise
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Time for action — making a self-marking crossword exercise
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Time for action — making a self-marking mixed up words exercise
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Time for action — making a self-marking multiple-choice quiz
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How can we save the scores in Moodle
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Words of warning
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Adding pictures, sound, or video to our self-marking exercises
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Making an assessment test with a Moodle quiz
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Time for action — setting up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents
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The quiz question screen
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Time for action — making a multiple-choice question
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Time for action — adding a video to a Matching question
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Previewing and using our Moodle assessment test
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Other types of questions
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Summary
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Games
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Games
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Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game
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Time for action — finding and making the Alien Abduction game
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Time for action — showing just the game without the web page
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Garbage in the bins—making a sorting exercise
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Time for action — finding and making the bin game
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Bish Bash Bosh—a differentiation game with a hammer!
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Time for action — finding and creating the Bish Bash Bosh game
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Time for action — uploading and displaying our game on Moodle
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Making a Monster memory game from Languages Online
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Time for action — downloading Memory Game Maker
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Time for action — creating our memory game
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I know what you're thinking!
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Fling the Teacher—making a Moodle-marked homework
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Time for action — finding and setting up Fling the Teacher
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Time for action — creating a Fling the Teacher game
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Time for action — getting our game to work in Moodle's gradebook
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Summary
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Multimedia
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Multimedia
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Making a sound recording to put into Moodle
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Time for action — getting Audacity
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Time for action — setting up to record
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Improving the recording and involving our class
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Time for action — getting rid of the coughs and giggles
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Time for action — adding background music
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Time for action — saving our recording
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Time for action — displaying the audio file in a player on the page
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Making a film to put into Moodle
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Time for action — creating our movie
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Improving our movie with effects and sound
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Time for action — adding special effects to our movie
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Time for action — adding sound to our movie
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Getting the sound to match our images
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Adding the finishing touches to make our movie ready for Moodle
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Time for action — adding our opening credits
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Time for action — saving and uploading the movie into Moodle
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Summary
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Wonderful Web 2.0
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Wonderful Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 words of warning
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Getting the pupils to blog!
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Time for action — adding the blog menu block so we can blog inside our course
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Time for action — introducing our project with a blog entry
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Putting a map onto Moodle
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Time for action — how to display a Google Map on our course page
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Introducing the project with a cartoon character
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Time for action — creating a moving and a talking teacher
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Telling our story through an online picture book
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Time for action — signing up and making our picture book
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Summarizing our project in a word cloud
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Time for action — making a Wordle word cloud
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Summary
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Practicalities
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Practicalities
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Miss, I can't do the homework because I haven't got Word at home!
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Time for action — getting a free alternative to Microsoft Office
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Choosing the best file type for Moodle
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Time for action — saving a Rivers homework as a .pdf file for ease of access on Moodle
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Making it easier for our students to view our slideshows
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Time for action — getting a program that displays our interactive presentations
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Time for action — saving our slideshow so that everyone can see it
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Making sure that all of our images look correct on Moodle
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Time for action — getting a program to help us edit images for Moodle
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Time for action — resizing a single photo to display on Moodle
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Time for action — re-sizing several photos, all in one go
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Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned
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Time for action — how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle
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Using Moodle on your i-devices
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Advanced Tips and Tricks
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Advanced Tips and Tricks
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Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions
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Time for action — creating a decision-making exercise (DME)
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Time for action — finishing and viewing our DME
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Getting feedback from our students
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Time for action — setting up a feedback activity at the end of our course
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Controlling the learning path with Conditional Activities
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Time for action — scheduling conditional activities (1)
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Time for action — scheduling conditional activities (2)
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Time for action — scheduling conditional activities (3)
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Time for action — finalizing conditional activities
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Finishing off—what else can Moodle do for me?
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Making our course home page look more like a web page
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Time for action — adding image links to our topic sections
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Time for action — putting our activities into web pages
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Time for action — link the topic page to its image
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Concealing our activities to make our course page neater
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Time for action — making our course page look more like a web page
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Summary

Chapter 1. Getting Started

We're at the very start of our journey here. We know where we are heading—we want to create a fun-filled, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment for our young students. We want them to have access to all of our resources that would normally be on paper, plus any new activities that we hope are out there, but that we haven't actually discovered! Ideally, we'd like a situation where our initial efforts will be rewarded by saving us a lot of time in the long term. We want Moodle to occupy our students usefully, mark their work, and record their scores so that we don't have to do it. A tall order, but one that is perfectly possible!

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Take a tour of the Moodle course page to get familiar with all of the options that we have; so that we are ready to set it up for our classes

  • Choose the most suitable layout for our course, and make each section attractive to the students

  • Take a look, add, and edit the blocks on either side of our work area to make these blocks useful for us and our class

  • Add text and images to our work area to improve its appearance

  • Learn how to make click here links to various websites for our students to easily access them

First impressions

Let's assume you've been given an empty Moodle course page. When you first go to your course page, you'll probably see something that looks like this:

Don't be disheartened if this doesn't mean much to you at this stage. If you were to flick through to the end of the book, you would find our completed work far more welcoming:

Let's go back to that first screenshot, of the empty course.

Note

Don't be put off by the word course. A course can be anything you want it to be—a teacher's class page, a single unit of work (such as ours), a project, a year's lessons shared among a group of teachers, and so on.

There are three columns; two narrow ones on the right and left, containing some blocks, and a wider column in the middle. This wider column is the work area, to which we will start adding our teaching materials (this will be covered in detail in Chapter 2, Adding Worksheets and Resources).

The name of the course (empty, for now) appears on the upper left, and an abbreviated version (empty) will appear in the bar below it (the bar is called a navigation bar). The block called Navigation shows different things to students and teachers, but basically it helps us find our way around the Moodle site.

The Settings block has a Course administration area just for the teachers. It allows us (teachers) to perform various actions for our course. Let's start by changing the course name to what we want, and setting up the work area to something more suitable for us.

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