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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 a program to create our self-marking activities


Let's download a program that will self-mark various activities. Hot Potatoes is one such famous program.

  1. 1. Go to the web address, http://hotpot.uvic.ca/#downloads.

  2. 2. For PC users, click on the Downloads link and then choose Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer. If you use Internet Explorer, you will get a message asking if you want to Run or Save the Hotpot file. If you use Firefox, you will be asked to Save it first, and Chrome will download it for you automatically. Once you have saved it, click Run to install it.

  3. 3. If you get any security warnings, agree to them and allow the setup to run (it's quite safe!). Click on Next to continue with the setup.

  4. 4. Select your language.

  5. 5. Accept the license agreement (as mentioned previously) and click on Next until the software has been installed.

  6. 6. When an image of a hand holding a potato appears, click on that image to bring up the following screen:

  7. 7. Click on Help and then click...