Hi there,
is there a feature or plugin that allows students to take notes on specific elements of a course (like a video, lesson, activitx or else)?
I saw this in Coursera and find it very practitcal: as a student you can take notes, then go to the whole notes-collection, view them all at once and jump back to the corresponding course-part if needed.
Thx,
Stefan
Hi Stefan,
There are a number of ways you can do that. One is to use the database activity with approval required,then never approve them, so students can only see their own "notes."
Use a journal activity. Might need to set up more than one as students can only create one entry per journal, but can go back and add to it.
If you want students to collaborate, you could again use database, and could also use the Hot Question plugin. With it students could even vote for important comments.
You can also do this as a regular assignment with it setup for online text.
Hi Stefan,
I'm sorry to say, but as best as I can remember, I've never heard of Cousera, so could you provide a picture/description of how it's done? We might have more pertinent suggestions if we had a better idea of what you want.
Would the Comments Block work? It has a similar look however not all of the functionality that is shown in the video. It maybe something to start with.
I like the way BigBlueButton has both a Chat and Note functionality that students can use during a webinar and then export the file in various formats. It would be nice if this functionality would be available in other activities. That way students could mark-up the content to help organize their thinking.
The Podcast (mod_pcast) does pretty much the same thing as shown in your video. It has a Comments capability, but it is not as conveniently located, but that is/was easy to fix. Back before I retired, I had modified things so that comments were in a better location when I was grading/watching/listening to student submissions.
You haven't mentioned your Moodle version, and I hesitate to mention this possibility, as the latest available release is for Moodle 3.4. But Content Pages (mod_content) would be perfect for this. Basically, the plugin lets you present info, text, pictures, audio, and video, in a fashion very similar to a presentation, like LO Impress or MS Power Point. For automatic grading purposes, you can add questions from the Moodle question bank, although not every question type is supported. Anyone in the class can post public or private notes, as well as ask questions which can be public or private between student and teacher. It is a real shame the plugin maintainer has not kept this up to date. I have it working in Moodle 3.7, and if I remember correctly, the only thing I had to fix was one place that was causing a bunch of, pix_url is deprecated, debug messages. In line 99 of addquestionpage.php, I changed the one occurrence of
pix_url to image_url and it fixed all of the deprecated entries I was getting. It is a great plugin for presenting material to students for study at their own pace, with question capabilities that let you verify that they have actually read, listened to, or watched the material being presented.
I will send you a message on where you can see it working.