Good idea! I think it would be easiest to just add the questions you often get from students and share them with other teachers using Moodle. My try is in the tips & tricks glossary on this page. I wanted to use the random glossary entry block to weekly show a new tip about working with Moodle. That's why most of the entries are really short ones. They are based on questions I got from my students. Feel free to us the attached glossary, although it doesn't include the pictures.
open an existing glossary or create a new one
click on the import tab
indicate that you want to import the glossary.xml file into a new glossary
you now have a glossary with some hints on using Moodle
set the glossary format to faq
you can have students and teachers add questions to it
More options:
add the random glossary entry block to your course
in the configuration page for this block, make sure you select the glossary you created for adding faq
set the number of days it should display each faq before randomly choosing another one
I've noticed that the images are links to my site. I don't know how this can be solved automatically. Please copy them from my site to yours and change the links.
Go to the course where you added the glossary to
Make sure editing is turned on. If it isn't, click on the button Turn editing on at the top of the page
Now you should see a little box at the bottom of the page entitled blocks and with a little dropdown menu in it.
select Random Glossary Entry from the dropdown menu.
there should be an extra block added to your course page. Click on the edit icon inside the blocks header to configure the block.
(All of this assumes you are using Moodle 1.5.x.)
Quote "We are working with some Instructional Technology students to create little screen capture movies for students who are not text-based learners."
Have you looked at using Wink?
WINK makes it easier to teach people how to use software programs, especially those learners who are visual learners.
The author, Satish Kumar, has a website
On this site open WINK and watch the brief tutorial.
Very easy to use.
George
