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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 — setting up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents


Let's create a quiz to test our students' knowledge about the world's rivers in a timed assessment and let's jazz it up with some multimedia. From the Add an activity drop-down menu, we're going to choose Quiz. Now, it's over to you:

  1. 1. In the Name block, type a name for your quiz that the pupils will see and click on.

  2. 2. In the Introduction block, enter a description of the quiz. Check the box Show description on the course page if you want this to appear on the main page.

  3. 3. Select your options for the quiz in the boxes that follow—if in doubt, leave them the way they are; it's quite safe! Anything you don't understand, ignore!

  4. 4. Use the following table to help you make your choices (for our test, we need to set the timer as well as a password):

    Item

    What it is

    What I think

    Timing

    Set start, end, and length of test—we've seen this before.

    Select Enable time limit for them to see a clock as they work.

    Attempts...