>I just expected to see something there like "Last Access: Never"
Of course. I've fixed it in CVS and it will be in the next release.
Cheers!
Martin Dougiamas
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Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> User Accounts -> Use the news forum
by Martin Dougiamas -
To post to everyone just post a new topic to the "News" forum. By default the News forum should be set so that everyone is "subscribed" to it, so they'll all get a copy in their mail.
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> User Accounts -> Re: User Accounts
by Martin Dougiamas -
When you say you've viewed his profile, I'm assuming that you found his name in the Admin list of users, but that his name does not appear in the list of course participants and that he has not enrolled in your course yet ... is that right?
The date you see is a "zero" date for most computers - all the dates in Moodle are stored as seconds from this point in time. It just means he has not confirmed his account yet via the email and has never used his account.
The date you see is a "zero" date for most computers - all the dates in Moodle are stored as seconds from this point in time. It just means he has not confirmed his account yet via the email and has never used his account.
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> What kinds of course does Moodle facilitate? -> Re: What kinds of course does Moodle facilitate?
by Martin Dougiamas -
Ed writes:
Moodle looks like a very solid student support package. But based on the two demo 'courses' I am baffled by the reference to online courses 'cos I don't see anything which resembles (say) an online presentation to be followed (I guess I was expecting to see the equivalent of a powerpoint presentation I could navigate online). What I do see is a list of resources, tasks and other artefacts, as I said an excellent student support package. So, am I completely missing the point?, do I have the wrong mental model?
Yes.
But you've asked a great question!
For me, I see a clue in your use of words such as: training, presenting, lecturing, and instructing. These are very common in traditional education circles and I would say indicate a view of education as the transmission of information from teacher to student. From this point of view the web is like a book or a videotape.
The progressive educational camp (which is growing) might use words like dialogue, collaboration, connecting, mentoring, modelling, construction, learner-centered and so on. It's this type of education that is actually pretty common among adults, whether they realise it or not.
For example, as a developer do you read books from start to finish to learn things? Or do you embark on a project, drawing from resources as you go, and perhaps working with others and learning tricks along the way from them or just by trying things out yourself?
You might find my 1998 paper on constructivism interesting (I've added it to Topic 1 in this course).
Moodle looks like a very solid student support package. But based on the two demo 'courses' I am baffled by the reference to online courses 'cos I don't see anything which resembles (say) an online presentation to be followed (I guess I was expecting to see the equivalent of a powerpoint presentation I could navigate online). What I do see is a list of resources, tasks and other artefacts, as I said an excellent student support package. So, am I completely missing the point?, do I have the wrong mental model?
Yes.
For me, I see a clue in your use of words such as: training, presenting, lecturing, and instructing. These are very common in traditional education circles and I would say indicate a view of education as the transmission of information from teacher to student. From this point of view the web is like a book or a videotape.
The progressive educational camp (which is growing) might use words like dialogue, collaboration, connecting, mentoring, modelling, construction, learner-centered and so on. It's this type of education that is actually pretty common among adults, whether they realise it or not.
For example, as a developer do you read books from start to finish to learn things? Or do you embark on a project, drawing from resources as you go, and perhaps working with others and learning tricks along the way from them or just by trying things out yourself?
You might find my 1998 paper on constructivism interesting (I've added it to Topic 1 in this course).
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> What kinds of course does Moodle facilitate? -> Re: What kinds of course does Moodle facilitate?
by Martin Dougiamas -
Others have mentioned the next/previous buttons and it's on the to-do list (low priority) for a future version of Moodle.
I say low priority because in most Moodle courses (if done properly, and note that the demo courses are not such great examples) you don't usually need to flip through everything in a sitting, and I'm a little apprehensive that these buttons will just promote the idea of this system as a content-based page-turner. Do you think it would?
I say low priority because in most Moodle courses (if done properly, and note that the demo courses are not such great examples) you don't usually need to flip through everything in a sitting, and I'm a little apprehensive that these buttons will just promote the idea of this system as a content-based page-turner. Do you think it would?