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Hi Mary, these are great courses. Thank you for making them. Here's some minor stuff:

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Where: Section Make more of Moodle / Book: Make more of Moodle / page 2 "more on Quiz"
what:
Question behaviours - Specify whether your learners see the answers immediately, whether they see hints and/or whether they are penalised for guessing by reading the Question behaviours documentation.

at:
https://learn.moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=149225
3. In your practice course, create a quiz with no time limit and with Deferred feedback. In Extra restrictions on attempts, check the box for the quiz to be attempted offline and then log in via the Moodle app as your test student. Download the quiz, attempt it offline (perhaps you'll need to turn off your wifi or mobile internet) and then reconnect and sync your quiz. Log in as the teacher and view the results."

The problem is that on the iphone moodle app, there's no way to log out and log in as someone else. I did it once, but I think what I did is I clicked "go to the website" and then I wasn't accessing the app, and then I logged in as a test student, but not via the app. I think also the download buttons were in a different place than what the instructions said in this section, but I figured it out. Ultimately it was a good activity to do. And fun to then see the score while logged in as admin on another device afterward!

I like how the "Task" section before the quizzes are so essential to passing the quiz, and also how it creates hands-on learning.

However here:
https://learn.moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=149223
Use a database preset from the Moodle.net archive (opens in new window) to create your own database activity in your practice course.

It didn't work for me. It wasn't greatly discussed in the book "Engage Your Learners" preceding it, but part of the hands on was me looking up the documentation on how to do it. I tried to import the food for moodlers database, after downloading it onto my computer desktop. But nothing worked.

I added a database activity, gave it a name. Hit "save and display", clicked the presets tab. Imported from a zip file. Get an "import error" Also get something called "field mappings." Then "import error."

It's a neat assignment if it would have worked because it shows you don't always have to start from scratch with a database or glossary.

https://learn.moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=149229
....Both these courses contain competencies. Access the Competencies link in the navigation drawer and view the New Staff induction competency breakdown report, using the jump to menu and filters to switch users and activities.

I didn't see any way to see or switch users.

https://learn.moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=149229

Using your teacher login as above, access the World of Water course Poem assignment grading screen and...
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Using your teacher login as above, access the World of Water course Poem assignment grading screen (first select 'past' in the Course Overview pulldown menu) and...

4. In the same course as in (3) above, access the Class discussions forum and post a private reply to student Barbara. Log in with the username = student and password = moodle and check see can see but not reply to your reply.

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4. In the same course as in (3) above, access the Class discussions forum and post a private reply to student Barbara. Log in with the username = student and password = moodle and check to observe that she can see, but not reply, to your reply.

Minor typo on quiz question in "support your learners"

Martin wants to avoid desiging his own survey if possible.
designing

Horatio wants to use group messaging with his class. He uses groups but the group messaging panel in his messaging drawer says 0. He asked the administrator who assured him that group messaging is enabled on the site and he checked that his groups have group messaging enabled. What could be the reason why the group messaging panel says 0?

The problem with this question is if you go to Mount Orange, log in as a teacher and to to the Russian Revolution course, and make two groups and add yourself (teacher) to the groups, it still shows (0) in messaging, when logged in as teacher, and logging in as student the groups in messaging don't show up either.

Finished it. Great course! I learned a lot. It was hard at the end and I had to find external videos on youtube about certain topics, like "Colles Survey", but that ended up being part of the learning process and how to figure things out in moodle. On one hand not scoring high enough on first 2 attempts of the quizzes was making me dig for info in the course books and sometimes 3rd party videos and all that made me learn even more, and on another level it brought my self esteem down by having to take the quiz 3 times to pass. LOL.
Key point: I learned a lot.

Thanks for this, i find it very helpful for staff ie introduction to teaching with Moodle
Thanks again.
Greg