Teach with Moodle

You may give your students the permission to create questions in a quiz, for instance, by giving them a Teacher role for a particular activity (not the whole course).

 

For instance, imagine you are discussing ethics.

Ask your students to write a multiple choice question each (and 3 answers) such as:

"Euthanasia is lawful for animals, but not for humans."

A. This is the way it should stay
B. Governments should start to discuss this publicly
C. This is obviously the most humane way for some people to die."

 

What is the advantage of students preparing questions?

For one thing, you will be circulating an exercise prepared by students - that will get them highly interested.

The second advantage is that you, as a teacher can see the types of questions and answers students come up with, and cater your face-to-face teaching to approach areas that were not covered by students, for instance, or misconceptions.

For instance, in the example above, if the question was written by a student, you could ask the class how euthanasia relates to ethics and what similar issues are applicable to work ethics.

This example is shown in the activity called 'Permissions: an example'.