Hi All,
I am trying to increase my students participation on the Moodle news forums and create a weekly management report.
Does Moodle have reports for the news forums or can anyone recommend how you monitor/report on forum activity.
Thanks
Rob
(Edited by Mary Cooch - original submission Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 11:13 AM)
Do you mean increasing your students viewing the News forum? Because by default they can't post to a News forum.
Hi Mary,
Yes, I mean students reading and responding to posts. I have set the forums to be an open discussion, students can add posts, respond to each other and I can post.
The key thing I'm looking of is how best to report their participation. I can use the report logs and create a pivot table to manipulate the info. It becomes time consuming as I'm managing cirac 900 students across 15 programmes. The simplest metric Im reporting is % of group that made some action in the past week (reading, posting, responding etc)
Thanks
Rob
Thanks for the clarification I'm intrigued as to why you changed the permissions on a News forum as opposed to using one of the regular forum types but I appreciate that doesn't help with your question. I've changed the subject title to see if it will attract more takers.
Visvanath,
Thanks but I respectfully disagree, I have generated log reports showing the following activity:
I'm looking for a quick/efficient way of reporting.
I may have called the Forum a 'News Forum' by mistake as multi-directional communication is allowed in the forum between me to students , students to me and student to students.
I'm not too concerned with monitor email views/open rates, I'm more interested with engagement in the forums themselves.
Thanks
Rob
Thanks Mary,
I think we do use discussion forums on Moodle but the common office term we use is news forum so that can cause confusion.
Regards reporting, I created a template management report using exported data from the logs and manipulated it in a pivot table so that looks to be closer to my solution. Unfortunately it is labour intensive unless I find an option to generate a report automatically,
Rob
Hi Rob, have you considered grading the forum? This would assign them the points right on the post. If you have a discussion requirement of 2 posts worth 10 points, you could set it to Sum of grades with the maximum being 10 points, and assign up to 5 points per post.
