I can do that though I (mistakenly) thought that Steve was suggesting an automated posting generator rather than a posting rater.
Last time I used verbal (rather than numerical scales) there was a sort of weird 'averaging' effect where the comments were deemed to be in a ranked order on a scale rather than the discrete alternatives that we will have here.
Anyway I will set up the scale and we can try it out on Steve's orginal post say.
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OK, I have set up a scale as Julian describes, and applied it to a new temporary forum (so as not to disrupt the rating already done in this forum).
Please could Julian and others put in a couple of postings and we can apply multiple ratings to see what happens.
The limitations that i noticed (apart from 'averaging' issue) are that ratings only permits text so there is no opportunity to put in urls (but I will see if auto-text links work); and that we can only have one rating scale per forum.
Please could Julian and others put in a couple of postings and we can apply multiple ratings to see what happens.
The limitations that i noticed (apart from 'averaging' issue) are that ratings only permits text so there is no opportunity to put in urls (but I will see if auto-text links work); and that we can only have one rating scale per forum.
I have attached a snapshot of the results of the poll on Use of RSS feeds.
Though not many responded, a significant majority do want to use RSS and most of those are using the feed with a desktop aggregator . Currently this forum has an RSS feed, Lounge has guest access (though not auto-login) and is Open to Google. That seems to me to be fairly consistent. Obviously this set up precludes private conversations, and if there is a need for those, we could talk about it. Also if anyone has any links to a how to use RSS (particularly with Moodle) it might be useful to participants.
(BTW someone showed me this yesterday http://www.suprglu.com/).
I don't have access to the logs for social forum before it was hived off to a separate course but the logs for this week (comparing the same day of the week ) are approximately 1/3 of the first week after course started (they fell pretty rpaidly and have remianed fairly consistent). From a cursory analysis, the biggest fall is guest user access (Google and other guests), but the activity is generally lower. Obviously activity data is a bit misleading (doesn't count you RSSers) but I thought you might be interested to know the activity. It's difficult to generalise about postings as they are so variable but I'll look again at this in a month or so.
In summary, I propose no change - we keep RSS feed and Open to Google. Any comments or suggestions?
Though not many responded, a significant majority do want to use RSS and most of those are using the feed with a desktop aggregator . Currently this forum has an RSS feed, Lounge has guest access (though not auto-login) and is Open to Google. That seems to me to be fairly consistent. Obviously this set up precludes private conversations, and if there is a need for those, we could talk about it. Also if anyone has any links to a how to use RSS (particularly with Moodle) it might be useful to participants.
(BTW someone showed me this yesterday http://www.suprglu.com/).
I don't have access to the logs for social forum before it was hived off to a separate course but the logs for this week (comparing the same day of the week ) are approximately 1/3 of the first week after course started (they fell pretty rpaidly and have remianed fairly consistent). From a cursory analysis, the biggest fall is guest user access (Google and other guests), but the activity is generally lower. Obviously activity data is a bit misleading (doesn't count you RSSers) but I thought you might be interested to know the activity. It's difficult to generalise about postings as they are so variable but I'll look again at this in a month or so.
In summary, I propose no change - we keep RSS feed and Open to Google. Any comments or suggestions?
Hi Aryon, I am not quite sure what you mean.
Groups forum is here
where you could ask more detailed questions about operation of groups but it might be better to start with Moodle Documentation
and read about course settings and enrolment (where you can control who has access to a whole course), roles and capabilities (an enhanced feature in 1.7) and groups where you apply groups to forums, say, within a course.
Groups forum is here
where you could ask more detailed questions about operation of groups but it might be better to start with Moodle Documentation
and read about course settings and enrolment (where you can control who has access to a whole course), roles and capabilities (an enhanced feature in 1.7) and groups where you apply groups to forums, say, within a course.
Hi Stephen,
Sounds like an interesting project but you haven't attached the proposal so it's not clear where the evidence for your comparison is coming from. Is this an organisational case study or are you polling the views of a range of users?
This paper is quite good for theorising 'the user'.
Cavaye, A. (1995) User participation in system development revisited. Information and Management, 311-323.
This paper uses 'soft systems' approach.
Vidgen, R. (1997) Stakeholders, soft systems and technology: Separation and mediation in the analysis of information system requirements. Information Systems Journal, 7, 21-46.
There is a big information systems evaluation literature (taking an investment/ROI perspective) try this search http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=smithson+evaluation&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search You'll probably find this useful (if only to see what criteria it uses) http://www.edutools.info/index.jsp?pj=1
Good luck.
Sounds like an interesting project but you haven't attached the proposal so it's not clear where the evidence for your comparison is coming from. Is this an organisational case study or are you polling the views of a range of users?
This paper is quite good for theorising 'the user'.
Cavaye, A. (1995) User participation in system development revisited. Information and Management, 311-323.
This paper uses 'soft systems' approach.
Vidgen, R. (1997) Stakeholders, soft systems and technology: Separation and mediation in the analysis of information system requirements. Information Systems Journal, 7, 21-46.
There is a big information systems evaluation literature (taking an investment/ROI perspective) try this search http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=smithson+evaluation&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search You'll probably find this useful (if only to see what criteria it uses) http://www.edutools.info/index.jsp?pj=1
Good luck.