- Has anyone been able to set up other roles besides teacher/student? We are trying to create a tutor role between the two. (I know Flexible Roles are proposed for version 2)
- What are some strategies for uploading and displaying student website folders?
General Description
This module is designed for administering and publishing student projects. There are five parts/sub-modules to this module:
- Coordination: administration and design of activity flow/permissions
- Signup: nominating and selection of project topics
- Publish: publishing/viewing, rating, assessing and promoting projects
- Presentation: scheduling and scoring of face-to-face project presentations
- Archive: preserving and categorizing projects in a library
1. Coordination
This is a teacher-only sub-module for designing and administering the whole project process. For example, some teachers may choose to only do Signup without Publish or Presentation. So this section would be where a teacher would:
- select sub-modules
- define how topics are nominated and selected
- define audiences for viewing of results
- allocate time schedule for conferences/presentations
- setup forms and criteria for assessing, rating, and commenting on published files and presentations
- select data to be forwarded to the Activity Report and Gradebook of Moodle
- control archiving and display of projects to courses and the public
2. Signup
Project-based learning often starts by students selecting a theme or topic to the project. Usually teachers want students to choose one of a set, but not let more than one make the same choice. On other occasions, teachers want to have groups of students work on the project. For example, up to three students chose an item but no more, so teams of three are working on each of a limited set of items. Later, teachers can monitor progress on projects here. Students and teachers will want to view a summary page of selected topics, and release/switch project titles.
3. Publish
Students complete a project and upload it to the course site. They may upload a single webpage, a website folder of files, a powerpoint file, a report in Word or pdf format. These pages should be viewable (publishable) in four levels: 1) individual student & teachers only, 2) open to whole class, 3) open to other classes on the same site, and 4) open to the public. The viewing screen should be configurable-to see a whole class listing of titles, by group, and individual projects. After publishing, students rate and comment on the projects according to teacher criteria (rubrics). There should be configurable summary of ratings that gets forwarded into a block on the main page (ver 1.5 is capable of this, right?). After a course is completed, there is way for the published product to be categorized and deposited into an archive of projects.
4. Presentation/Conferencing
This sub-module is primarily a scheduler tool for setting up face-to-face meetings to present a project. Student schedule a time to meet with the teacher or meet with classmates to present their project. A teacher may list of times available, which is posted online and then individual students or groups sign up. As times are selected the screen greys out the commited times. At the presentation, instructors and/or peers will then score the presentation according to a criteria form (either printed and online). This submodule may be included as part of the signup sub-module if if it makes sense from an engineering view.
5. Archive
The archive is a place where completed projects can be deposited for future use. It should have a way to catagorize the projects and a way for teacher to selectively publish projects that are useful to student in later courses.