Inquiry and Guided Practice strategies

Teachers often use numerous small-scale problems to provide opportunities to practice knowledge and skills that are the building blocks of larger tasks. Using several exercises rather than 1 or 2 can represent a variety of situations with differing variables, and the repeated practice can help learners internalize their skills more deeply for rapid application. The exercises should emphasize a variety of situations or conditions, and they might be of increasing difficulty or complexity, with less guidance or hints to increase the learner's independence. 

Exercises are usually completed in a short time span and have objective, right or wrong, answers. Don't forget to provide some examples to demonstrate how to complete the exercises. 

Example: Present several quizzes based on sets of 10 satellite images. Each quiz item is an exercise that asks learners to examine one image and decide if it indicates the feature being discussed (atmospheric dust, low level clouds, severe convection, fire, etc.). Provide specific feedback to the learner after each quiz item and general feedback after each quiz set of 10 images.

Some of the best ways to offer exercises in Moodle are to use Quiz or Lesson. See the next page on using Lesson for building tutorials.