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Explore

Site: REMC 8 / Kent ISD Moodle VLE
Course: Teach with Moodle
Book: Explore
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Date: Monday, May 13, 2024, 4:21 PM

Description

Explore more advanced features of Moodle

Table of contents

Explore

In this second part you may want to explore activities that encourage interactions and collaboration, and which can count towards formative assessment, such as:

  • student interaction with content (choice, quizzes, glossary)
  • Interactions between students online (forum discussions, covered in Part One, and wikis)
  • Interactions between students and people outside of your module (twitter, covered in Part Three)

The Gradebook could also help you manage multiple activities into your assessment.

Part Two is also about summative assessment, in particularly how to set up and mark online assignments.


Pre-work? But what type?
A lot of activities included into formative assessment can be done before your face-to-face time. For instance by getting your students to research a new topic; to investigate and present initial answers to a problem; to discuss ethics around an issue; to bring forward relevant examples they found on the internet; to 'warm students up' to key issues; provide illustrations/scenarios; ask them to compare their findings etc.

The following activities encourage you to shift some of your teaching from the classroom to online exercises. This will free up time for you to carry out case studies, hands-on experiments, discussions etc. in class- anything that can help your students think their way through new learning content.

Interactions

Choice, Glossary and Quizzes are about engaging your students, by interacting with your course content, rather than with other students. They are used in brainstorming activities, or a means to evaluate prior knowledge, that is prior to approaching a new topic, or after a lesson, as a means to consolidate key points.
Quizzes are extensively used as formative and summative assessment, whereas Choice is only for formative purposes.
Glossary is a simple tool used to display definitions of key words in your module. You could choose to develop this yourself, over time or ask your students to add definitions and update them (so you can use it as a tool for research/collaborative work.)
Forum discussions are about encouraging students to discuss, or share their findings with other students. By getting your students to actively search or think about an aspect of your teaching, they will remember and understand key points better. It's also about sharing new knowledge with your group.
Wiki is also collaborative but instead of only sharing you are actually asking your students to build what they need to know about an issue. So a student starts proposing an answer and another one can make changes if they spot an error (a bit like wikipedia pages).
Twitter is also about encouraging interactions between students- but outside of your module, using not only your students' knowledge and experience, but also other people outside of the module who have access to them.

Gradebook

If you are considering using a lot of activities, such as Forum discussions, Choice, etc. then you should probably invest a little bit of time to get the Gradebook to calculate all this formative assessment for you.

Topic 16 is dedicated to this- but will only be useful once you have set up a number of activities in your module first.

Assignments

Find out how you can set up an online assignment, mark it and provide feedback online, and release results automatically.


Topics 17 and 18 are dedicated to helping you with online assignments.