Joseph Rézeau

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for taking the trouble to answer my post. Looks like there aren't many people interested in this topic.

It's a good thing that you are finding the General Feedback useful. Obviously for people & organisations who are dealing with thousands of questions, the question of the feedback is very different from what it is for people like myself who deal with less than 100 questions altogegher. Putting together a 10-question quiz, with careful choice of questions text, acceptable and non-acceptable answers, relevant individual feedback, etc. can take me easily a couple of hours. And I almost never use quizzes for testing, only for learning, and for me quality is far more important than quantity.

Thanks to people like Gustav and now Tim, the questions and quiz in Moodle can cater for a wide variety of teaching / learning / testing situations.

Joseph

Hi Amy,

I quite agree. What I do is as follows. For each forum in a given course, I count the total number of new posts and the total number of replies posted by each student. Then in my favorite spreadsheet I have written a formula to compute a "forum grade" which takes into account a) the average grade for that forum taken from the gradebook, b) the number of new posts and c) the number of replies. The resulting grade takes into account both quantity and quality. However, because there is no reporting tool in Moodle to output data b) and c), I have to calculate the numbers by hand, going through each student's "complete report".

Actually, one reason why I prefer to do the forums grading myself is that it is difficult to teach the students the criteria for judging their classmates' forum discussions (or their own). This is all the more difficult as my courses are English as a foreign language classes, where I have to evaluate the language used as well as the contents. So I end up wanting to assess 3 separate elements in the forumu discussions: the contents, the language used and quantity.

Well, actually, I've found that it is often the opposite. I've noticed that - when some discussions work really work well between the students - any teacher intervention can easily put an end to the discussion. But of course it really depends how the teacher is active.

Thanks for making me learn a new expression. And thanks everyone for a most interesting discussion.

Joseph

Michelle,

Sorry to have misled you. You are right, it does not work. Anyone knows how to make Edit Profile available in Administration panel for students in Moodle 1.7 ?

Joseph

Bonjour Véronique,

Je n'ai aucun problème pour restaurer le cours "lecon-exemple" sur mon installation (locale) de Moodle version 1.7.1+

Ce qui est étrange c'est que je n'ai pas exactement les mêmes messages que ceux montrés sur ta capture d'écran.

Joseph