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    About Mount Orange

    Mount Orange School provides high quality education for students aged from 8 to 18 years, making full use of the open source learning platform Moodle. The courses are open to guests and showcase Moodle features, highlighting the enhancements each new version brings.

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Cross-cultural Communication

Navigate global interactions with sensitivity and understanding.

Module credits: 25

Effective Memory Techniques

Module credits: 25

Critical Thinking: Develop your skills

Module credits: 25

Votes for Women!

Module credits: 25

Celebrating Cultures

Mount Orange is proud to have in its community students, teachers, parents and helpers from a wide variety of different cultures. This course, open to anyone, showcases the diversity of our traditions, our language and our landscapes. Please join insmile

Ages 8-adult

Module credits: 10

History: Russia in Revolution

This course is designed for students studying Russian history. While it is aimed at British students working towards an examination, the content is suitable for any class studying the subject.

Ages 15-18


Module credits: 40

World of Water

We all need water! Let's look at things we are doing well and not so well in managing this precious resource.

Ages 11-adult


Module credits: 25

Pilgrimage

This course in  Religious Education studird the concept of pilgrimage. It includes forums for reflection on the wider meaning and importance of "life journeys" and activities based around the life of St Bernadette of Lourdes.

Ages 12-14


Module credits: 25

Junior Geography: Where's Matt?

An  introduction for younger children to Google Earth/Google Maps,focusing on  the Geography of Place. Conditional activities are set so that once the students have watched the video and click the tick/checkbox, all the activities will then appear. 

Ages 8-10


Module credits: 25

Mindful course creation

Module credits: 25

New staff induction

Module credits: 25

Parents and Citizens Council

A space for members of Parents and Citizens council, an important part of our school community.

Module credits: 25

Staffroom

A space for staff only - not normally accessible to students.

Important professional news, updates, documents as well as social updates and events.

Module credits: 25

Psychology in Cinema

In this course we study three films: Spider, A Beautiful Mind, and Fight Club. The main focus of the course will be the ways in which psychosis is represented in the films in terms of macro, plot, narrative structure and micro etc. We consider the wider cultural meaning and implication of films dealing with psychology.

Ages 16+


Module credits: 50

Digital Literacy

Introducing the concept of Digital Literacy. Optimised for mobile.

Module credits: 30

Class and Conflict in World Cinema

In this module we will analyse two very significant films - City of God and La Haine, both of which depict violent lives in poor conditions, the former in the favelas of Brazil and the latter in a Parisian banlieue. We will look at how conflict and class are portrayed, focusing particularly on the use of mise en scène. Ages: 16+

The Impressionists

An introduction to the Impressionist movement in France, with students being allowed to select an artist to focus on for in-depth study. The course is an example of the use of Conditional activities and Activity completion.


Ages 14+


Module credits: 25

Literature of France 1100 - 1960

Created to demonstrate a poorly designed course with many sections, this is an introductory course covering key works and authors, poets and playwrights from the Middle Ages to the mid- 20th century.

 

Module credits: 25

English with H5P

A course of basic English teaching activities demonstrating various H5P activities integrated into Moodle

Module credits: 25

English: The Lake Poets

Module credits: 25

Mystère à Hyères

This is a Google Street View Mystery (inspired by Vincent Everett of Northgate High). It is designed for English speaking children who have studied French for 2 or 3 years but may also be adapted for other classes as wished. Access to Google Street view is essential and the course makes considerable use of Conditional activities. If you are using the course, make sure they are set up correctly.

Ages 14+


Module credits: 25

Moodle and Mountaineering

A course designed to introduce you to basic Moodle features while planning a trip to Mont Blanc. You don't need to know anything about climbing to do it - but you do need to want to learn how to teach with Moodle!

Module credits: 25

Types of Sport

A course in which you will be introduced to different types of sport and get a feel for how you might enjoy participating in them. Uses the Show one section per page layout.

Ages 8-13


Module credits: 25

Revision: Chemistry

A course containing a series of donated quizzes on chemical nomenclature.


Module credits: 25

Junior Mathematics

Module credits: 25

Moodle History Quiz

This is an example of the Single activity course format. It only displays one activity, which in this case is a Quiz, allowing the teacher to focus students' attention just on one learning area. Log in with username parent and password moodle  to see it in action.

Module credits: 25

Moodle recipes for educators

A course containing a database of many ideas for teaching with Moodle, collated by Tomaz Lasic and donated by educators everywhere. 

Ages All


Module credits: 25

Activity Examples

This course contains databases, glossaries and quizzes shared by other Moodle users from around the world. 

Module credits: 25


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