When designing your content on Moodle (eClass) it's important to test out how it looks and feels from a student perspective. In the Summer of 2020, YorkU's "DemoStudent" was introduced to provide that. With few exceptions, it shows what the student sees, all without having profs ask a student to log in or to beg […]
UIT has rebadged Moodle as "eClass" and now made the "Playground" feature front and centre for teaching faculty to create areas for us to test ideas without immediately changing an existing course. Access it via the "Create Playground" link on the left of your welcome page: We can now more easily name the playground. This […]
With the move to online I think that it's important to have students track their completion of tasks. I'm turning on completion tracking on eClass. Some of the material I want students to receive grades for (like answering questions in an interactive video) while other material I want them to simply report that they did […]
I think that online is best done with the student (and prof) being able to track the progress of the student in the most straight-forward manner possible. After a few days between looking at the the course page, and having forgotten where the student left off, it should be really clear to the student where […]
[this is a work in progress... I'll add more preview content and explanations of the usage of H5P material on Moodle.] The learning activities that one can use in Moodle are a little bland, a little 2010-ish. We can now add "H5P" content and activities, which make content feel a lot more contemporary -- emoticons […]
Virtual Programming Lab is a plugin for Moodle (eClass at YorkU) that permits interactive programming assignments to be made for students. There are some really good examples at Smith College on how to set it up with Python and a few with Java and C. I've posted, on YouTube, an example of how to […]
There are plenty of reasons to schedule interactions with students. Office hours are one reason, and student presentations are another. The Moodle scheduler allows you to set up these meetings, as shown in the figure below. once the student has looked at the schedule, she can then select a time slot. Once she has "booked […]
This is what the Quiz view looks like for students. multiple-choice... fill in the blank, with pre-defined answers. Notice that you can drag and drop the answer blocks and that the block gets highlighted in yellow when it's over the right place... short answer, with no pre-defined solution.... summary of the quiz... confirm submission... The […]
A few people at York have mentioned Workshop as a decent way for students to interact with each other around their school work. It has the potential to be used in a way that is similar to how my wife (as a student) is evaluating other student submissions in an online ETFO (Elem. Teachers Federation […]
What if you want a student to post material and have the rest of the class view and comment? The Wiki module might be overkill, as is the Workshop module. Maybe the Glossary module is light enough. Here, I'm setting it up to permit comments on entries. There are different styles of Glossaries... Dictionary, Encyclopedia, […]