Moodle with primary/elementary school students

Re: Moodle with primary/elementary school students

by Randy Thornton -
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Anthony,

Welcome back! Glad to see you on the forums again.

I think a couple of things that might help are:

- The Fordson theme is designed for younger school kids and has a ton of features, many of which you can hide if not using. Chris, its developer, works at a K-12 district and is very open to new features for users that age. https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_fordson

- There's a Kids English language pack now (not sure if that was around back in your previous Moodle life smile

- Check out the H5P tools. Many of these are much more friendly to kids, having large images, icons, etc., and definitely more interactive, fun to make and use.


Randy
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Re: Moodle with primary/elementary school students

by Anthony Borrow -
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Thank you all for the warm welcome back and many great suggestions. I'm excited that my day job once again is opening up some possibilities for me to make use of Moodle. I'm busy learning about the realities of education, politics and life in Belize. Belize has a great deal of potential to benefit from collaboration, open source, etc. so hopefully I will be able to foster some of that among folks here. I'll certainly checkout the course, the kids language pack, H5P, and the fordson theme. All great suggestions!
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Re: Moodle with primary/elementary school students

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello Anthony! I have been following this thread for a while now but just thought I would come in and say "hello" and welcome back. It does sound a very exciting (challenging and satisfying!!) role you have now in Belize - so all the best smile
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Re: Moodle with primary/elementary school students

by AL Rachels -
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Hi Anthony,
Welcome back to Moodle. There are three plugins I maintain that might be useful for primary school aged kids:
Hot Question - lets kids post questions and vote on question posted by others. Can be used for more than just questions. e.g. Suggestion box, Feedback, Quick Poll, etc..
Diary - Can be used as a daily journal, diary, place to write essays, etc.
MooTyper - Can be used for teaching from basic to fairly advanced keyboarding techniques. Keyboard layouts and lessons can be customized to the local equipment and languages used. Typing exercises can be created by any teacher or admin to fit the age group of the students.
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