Cooch Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps.
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84951-833-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps.Key Features - Ideal for teachers new to Moodle: easy to follow and abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build
- Go paperless! Put your lessons online and grade them anywhere, anytime
- Engage and motivate your students with games, quizzes, movies, blogs and podcasts the whole class can participate in
Book DescriptionMoodle 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.What you will learn - Set up your lessons directly onto Moodle to save paper and effort
- Get your students doing homework on Moodle so you can grade and give feedback online
- Use Moodle to encourage discussion and decision-making
- Introduce your children to the world of blogging within the safety of Moodle
- Get interactive with self-marking games and quizzes by including images, sounds, and animations
- Make movies and sound recordings to inspire your class
- Learn how to make games that will please both the children s need to play and your headteacher s need for assessment grades
- Make the most of what s free on the Web to get your children working and learning together
Who this book is forThis book is for regular, non-technical teachers of pre-teen or early teenage children. It assumes no prior knowledge of Moodle and no particular expertise on the web. Classroom assistants may also find this book a very useful resource. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooch, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Cooch Mary :

Mary Cooch has taught Languages and Geography in the UK for over 20 years. She manages several websites, even more Moodles, and runs her own Moodle blog. A Moodle Certified Teacher, she now spends part of her working week travelling the country as a VLE trainer specializing in Moodle. She regularly promotes its benefits in Junior and High schools and has a deep understanding of what works best for younger students. Known online as the moodlefairy, Mary is a frequent contributor to the help forums of Moodle.org where she aims to enthuse others with her passion for this open source Virtual Learning Environment.