[senit] Child friendly Moodle

David
I teach in a virtual classroom. We use Moodle with the majority of
our groups ranging from KS1,KS2, G&T and SEN.
Moodle can be made child friendly. We have a very easy to use front
page, login, and password system. We have children as young as 6
accessing it without support. We walk them through the process
online! The rest of the course set up on Moodle can be designed
appropriately. I agree with a former comment that although it is free
software it can be more successful if you work with some one who
knows how to set it up and how to populate it. As a teacher I have
found it a brilliant tool. You can view our front page if you go to
www.thedlc.org and click on the pupils VLE.

Jan Parker
Teacher for Inclusion
Digital Learning Community
www.thedlc.org 

>
>I did have a look at Moodle in terms of the free
>download. It didn't seem very child friendly or
>special needs friendly. Is there anywhere online I can
>see something similar to an e-portfolio eg a demo in
>moodle? the moodle website itself has a demo but it
>didn't seem to work very well when I accessed it, and
>didn't have many examples in the demo.
>
>thanks
>David
>--- David Banes <david.banes at abilitynet.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Moodle is definitely worth exploring and make sure
>> you take a good look
>> at the plugins that support it - we use it as the
>> basis of our elearning
>> site and it allows learners to store a great deal of
>> personal files such
>> as journal/blog etc
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