[...]... 20 8 20 8 21 4 21 6 21 6 21 9 22 0 22 1 22 1 22 2 22 4 22 5 22 7 22 9 23 0 23 1 23 1 23 2 23 3 [v] Preface Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds is not a book for geeks This book will not tell you about PHP, HTML, or anything else that you don't need to know 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 The aim... of Contents Time for action – re-sizing several photos, all in one go Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned Time for action – how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle Using Moodle on your i-devices What's good What's not so good Summary Chapter 9: Advanced Tips and Tricks 20 0 20 2 20 2 20 4 20 4 20 5 20 5 20 7 Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions Time for action – creating... Moodle do for me? Making our course home page look more like a web page Time for action – adding image links to our topic sections Time for action – putting our activities into web pages Time for action – link the topic page to its image Concealing our activities to make our course page neater Time for action – making our course page look more like a web page Summary Index 20 8 20 8 21 4 21 6 21 6 21 9 22 0... for everyone to store their own stuff Handy block for your students—good one to add Online users Shows who's accessing your course online at the moment Useful for making sure that everyone's there, on task People Lists those enrolled in your course, and when they last visited your course page Another useful block to keep a check on your participants Quiz results Displays recent quiz results Handy for. .. worksheets and slideshows, investigate ways of resizing images for our course page, and learn about the pros and cons of using Moodle on tablets and mobiles Chapter 9, Advanced tips and tricks, gives us a taste of Moodle Level 2! It looks at how we can use the more advanced features of Moodle, plus some optional extras, to enhance our teaching further We learn how to create decision-making exercises... how to get your Moodle course up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle that is managed by somebody else so that you are only responsible for creating and delivering course content Throughout the book, we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7-14, on Rivers... 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 [2] Preface Reader feedback Feedback from our readers is always welcome Let us know what you think about this book—what you liked or may have disliked Reader feedback is important for us to develop titles that you really... (DME) Time for action – finishing and viewing our DME Getting feedback from our students Time for action – setting up a feedback activity at the end of our course Controlling the learning path with Conditional Activities Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (1) Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (2) Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (3) Time for action... progress as they go along We end our journey by making our course page look more like a web page What you need for this book No specific technologies are needed, although it is assumed that the reader will play the role of a teacher in a Moodle course that is set up for them It is desirable, though not essential, to have access to Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Who this book is for This book is for regular,... homeworks, and worksheets that we have already made in programs such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint We will also learn how to use Moodle' s own pages to create lessons directly online Chapter 3, Getting Interactive, gets the students to interact with us, the teachers, and with each other in Moodle The chapter combines classroom tasks with Moodle activities in a role play project which will get the students . go 20 0 Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned 20 2 Time for acon – how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle 20 2 Using Moodle on your i-devices 20 4 What's good 20 4 What's. acvies (1) 22 0 Time for acon – scheduling condional acvies (2) 22 1 Time for acon – scheduling condional acvies (3) 22 1 Time for acon – nalizing condional acvies 22 2 Finishing o—what.