Teaching strategies

Re: Formative quiz - no grading

Kent Baker — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:10:09 GMT

by Kent Baker.

Thanks for that,

will do!

Re: Formative quiz - no grading

Tim Hunt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:56:50 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

You can set the quiz weighting to zero in the gradebook. Indeed, to make it clear, you could set up a new category there, something like 'optional activities', and then weight the whole category 0. That way, students can see their scores in the gradebook, along with everything else, but without them affecting the final score for the course.

Of course, this does require you to work out the gradebook editing interface

Formative quiz - no grading

Kent Baker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:19:09 GMT

by Kent Baker.

Hi there,

I'm new to Moodle and I'm wondering whether I can generate a quiz that does not link to my grade book. The purpose of the quiz would be to help students determine where they are at in their study and I woulnt like this info to be included into their overall mark. From what I can tell in the creation of the quiz, there has to be a grading component. Would I have to set the quiz weighting as zero in the grade book

Thanks for your help

Kent

Same course different prices?

Pennie Koch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:37:24 GMT

by Pennie Koch.

Hi All,

I am fairly new to Moodle and need help trying to set up the same class with two different prices. Example unergrads and grads share a couple of the same courses but the cost would be different for each. How do I set up the same class so all students are in there together yet have them paying the different prices. I have done some research on meta courses but I'm not sure that is my answer.

Re: Any creative ideas/ stories for using glossaries

Glenys Hanson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:53 GMT

by Glenys Hanson.

Hi there,

Over the last year I've tried two things, the first worked (though I don't know if everyone liked it ), the other didn't.

At the last French MoodleMoot I used a glossary to do a giant brainstorming in a lecture room with nearly 300 people. I asked them to organise themselves into groups of 2 to 4 people (sitting where they were) and find answers to the question, "What would make a good collaborative activity on Moodle?" In 15 minutes 42 suggestions were added to the glossary, some serious, others not. The wifi system was just barely able to cope, it almost slowed to a stop - there would probably have been more suggestions otherwise.
On a French teacher training course for Moodle, I suggested the participants translate into French and add to Paula Clough's Glossary of Glossary Ideas. Maybe because I only thought of this task late in the course, only one person (apart from me) translated an article.

Cheers,
Glenys

Re: Any creative ideas/ stories for using glossaries

Dianna Martinez — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:54:58 GMT

by Dianna Martinez.

I used the Glossary as a test review tool. As students walked into the classroom, they drew a topic from the hat that was going to be on the test. They then worked with a partner to gather everything they could from their individual practice activities, quizzes, textbooks, and online resources like Discovery Education Science. They then added this information to their glossary item in a 15 minute time period.

Once that time was up, we worked through the glossary as a whole group with students adding information or correcting information that they had entered.

My students loved this way of reviewing because they had ownership of their glossary item, but also were able to add to the other entries as we discussed. Those students with special IEPs could print out the sheets or could review from home 24/7.

Re: Course Short Name in Combo List

Jeff Forssell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:17:41 GMT

by Jeff Forssell.

In this connection you could use as long name for your (rather unlikely) example:

Moodle Demo (CF101)

and as the short name:

CF101

The only problem could be if there is some other place where the long name is used that this would be unsuitable.

PS I still have no clue WHY you want to do this, which makes is sort of like working in the dark.

Re: Course Short Name in Combo List

Prashant Bansal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:06:55 GMT

by Prashant Bansal.

Hi Jeff,

I apologize for my mistake.
I am using Moodle 1.9.5 . I am attaching with this post the screenshot of the Moodle demonstration Site and i have marked the required changes in the image.

The screenshot attached is the home page displayed just after the user logs in to moodle.

Please chek the attachment and help me..

Thanks
Prashant

Re: Any good examples of using Moodle for A level/GCSE English?

Mary Cooch — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:50:29 GMT

by Mary Cooch.

This might give you some ideas too - http://www.ssatenglish.org/

Re: Course Short Name in Combo List

Jeff Forssell — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:14:04 GMT

by Jeff Forssell.

It always makes things easier to understand if you give a concrete example and why you want to do something.

What Long name do you want and what short name? Why do you want them shown together (in which order?) in the dropdown? Do you ever need the long name WITHOUT the shortname? (Maybe my questions give away a possible solution )

It's also good to say which version of Moodle you have, but that probably isn't significant here.