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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

By: Mary Cooch

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)
Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — getting students to create their own Glossary


Let's create a Glossary where the students will be able post their suggestions. This will help us in understanding their choices.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select the Glossary option, within the Add an activity option.

  2. 2. Provide a suitable name for the glossary in the Name field, and describe what the glossary's about in the Description text block. It might be a good idea here to explain how the students add entries, if they haven't used this feature before. If you want the description to show on the main course page, check the box Display description on course page.

  3. 3. There are many options that you can specify for a glossary. To start with, just leave them as they are shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    If you want to moderate entries before they appear in the glossary, choose No in the Approved by default field. If you want to let students comment on entries, choose Yes in the Allow comments on entries box.

  4. 4. Ignore...