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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.

• 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

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book

• 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

Approach

This book is part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series. Written in a friendly tone, the book starts at the very beginning with a blank Moodle page and you are taken step by step through the most useful features of Moodle, helped with many illustrative screenshots.

Who this book is written for

This 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.

Build customized themes to make your Moodle courses engaging and interactive

About This Book

• Leverage the power of Moodle 3 to create interactive and engaging themes for your courses
• Experience and integrate the power of Bootstrap and CSS into your Moodle app
• Implement your plans with illustrative examples to become a top notch designer

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Moodle administrator, developer, or designer and wish to enhance your Moodle site to make it visually attractive, then this book is for you. You should be familiar with web design techniques such as HTML and further experience with CSS would be helpful.

What You Will Learn

• Plan a personalized Moodle theme from start to finish
• Install a Moodle theme in different operating systems and change Moodle’s theme settings
• Add your own customized logo and test your changes in several web browsers
• Customize the Moodle site to fit in with other elements such as websites and social networks, among others
• Create a design mock-up using graphics software
• Design themes that are capable of working with a huge number of different resolutions, screen sizes, screen orientations, and pixel densities
• Work with code to adjust the theme to users requirements
• Create new custom icons for your theme

In Detail

Theming is one of the main features of Moodle, and it can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to,according to your target audience. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle themes that you are proud of, and that your students will enjoy, then this is the book for you.

We start off by introducing Moodle 3 and explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. We then show you how to choose and change the pre-installed Moodle themes in detailed steps, and explain what Moodle themes are and how they work. Next, we show you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.

You can not only plan the customization of theme, but also tailor it using advanced Moodle theming processes; this book is your one-stop guide to creating your own personalized Moodle 3 theme.

Style and approach

This book acts as a comprehensive guide which helps you to create visually stunning and responsive themes to add that extra edge to your Moodle apps.

Set-up and customize the gradebook to track student progress through Moodle

• Use Moodle's powerful gradebook more effectively to monitor and report on the progress of your students
• Customize the gradebook to calculate and show the information you need
• Discover new grading features and tracking functions now available in Moodle 2

In Detail

Moodle, as a learning management system, is used to provide resources, interactive activities and assessments to students. Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, calculate final marks and track student achievement and progress to help the teacher manage the learning process.

Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, making it much easier for you to organize your work and relay information to your students. This book provides examples of practical uses of the gradebook to demystify the terminology and options available, allowing you to make full use of the assessment tracking features and, most importantly, customize it to meet your needs.

Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the core functions of the gradebook as you will learn how to add your own graded activities before marking this work. You will customize how you view the grades and organize the activities so that your course needs are met. You will also use the new completion functions within Moodle 2.x to track progress further. Make the gradebook accommodate your requirements by adding your own grading options and setting it up to present the information you need.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the core functions of the gradebook, what information it shows, and how to get to it.
• Add graded assignments to your online course that make use of number and word grades as well as the use of outcomes.
• Create categories to arrange graded activities in the gradebook.
• Use options to filter the information you want to see.
• Discover the preset aggregation types to calculate category and course totals based on the course requirements
• View reports and export data to further review student progress.
• Set up activity and course completion to further aid assessment tracking for students and teachers.
• Discover the new advanced grading option now available in Moodle 2.

Approach

A practical book with plenty of step-by-step instructions and informative screenshots to guide you through the many features of gradebook.

Who this book is written for

Moodle Gradebook is for anyone who uses Moodle as a course instructor. You will need to know the basic functions of using and navigating Moodle, but no prior knowledge of the grades functions will be required.