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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 — making our course page look more like a web page


Let's learn how to make our Moodle course page look prettier, and more like a web page.

  1. 1. In the Settings block, under the Course administration heading, click on Edit settings.

  2. 2. Change the number of topics to 0.

  3. 3. Save your changes.

Done! Forget the coffee! Crack open the champagne!

What just happened?

We performed a massive con trick! We linked all our resources in sections 1 to 4 into Topic 0. We then got Moodle to display only Topic 0 and keep the others out of sight. But just because we set the course to display only one topic, it doesn't mean that the others are gone forever. Our efforts over nine chapters can't be deleted that easily. They're just hiding, and waiting to be made available for use, but actually not on the page. Do you see that if you have your editing turned on, you see the words Orphaned activities? This is to remind you that the activities under that heading are not visible to the students, but easily...