Teach with Moodle

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.