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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 our matching activity into Moodle


We have created the matching activity on our computer. It's now time to to upload it into Moodle.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, select Add a Resource and then select File.

  2. 2. In Name, type what you want your students to click on to get to the exercise and in Description explain what it's about. Check the box Display description on course page if you want this to appear on the main page:

  3. 3. Click on the Add button to get to the File picker.

  4. 4. Browse your computer and upload the file, as we did for other resources and make sure you upload the .htm file.

  5. 5. In the Display options, choose Automatic.

  6. 6. Ignore all the other options for now (it's quite safe!).

  7. 7. Click on Save and return to course.

What just happened?

Our Hot Potatoes matching exercise is now in Moodle, and ready to be tried out! We uploaded it in a similar way we uploaded other resources such as Word-processed documents. The students will be able to do this exercise as often...