Teaching with Moodle

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Students can write a message to the teacher via messenger or mail.

If a pupil is being bullied using Moodle as the medium (either in forums or through messaging), the pupil could easily message you with a reference to the offending messages or posts. I'm not sure you can do anything about bullying that takes place outside of Moodle (e.g., cell phone instant messages, posting on social networking sites) because you can't so easily substantiate it.

Edit: Ralf's post beat me to it!

Sure, you could have several possible selections. Pick your target student then choose whether to e.g. send them several offensive emails, or harass them every time they log into Moodle, or perhaps offer a convenient way to distribute embarrassing cameraphone videos to all other students...

OH WAIT you mean to REPORT bullying, not carry it out...

I agree with others that the messaging facility would probably address this need. One possibility might be to have a link (a 'bullying button') on the home page to a resource page. The resource page could then offer general advice as well as instructions (or a direct link if possible?) on how to use the messaging facility to contact a teacher. You can do this without needing any software development.

--sam

As Sam said, this can be done.
1. open messaging
2. add whoever will receive the message about bullying to your contact list
3. copy the link to that contact (this link has a tool tip that reads "send a message to NAME"). The link will look something like
http://domainname.org/message/discussion.php?id=736
4. create a resource page
5. create any instructions, comments, etc.
6. while in the body of the page, create the link.

We use a "panic" button in our socializing space. If somebody says something that upsets somebody else, they can message the moderator. If the moderator is not logged in, the message is emailed to the moderator.