Glenys Hanson

Hi John,

Shamelessly copying from suggestions in another disccussion:

• Have you check that the "upload a file" button doesn't appear when you're logged in with a student account?
• What about the assignment start and end dates?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi  Mike,

To reply to what you wrote privately.

Well, there are other plugins that will record how long students are logged on - pedagogically useless as that information is. There've been lots of discussions on these forums (Has anyone used the logs in Moodle to track hours ..) pointing out that students can log on to Moodle and then go out and play football for half an hour. But if that's what the red tape requires...

Try the Course dedication block.

To find more discussions, do a Google search for "Moodle student tracking".

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Mike,

I'll answer your questions that I'm sure about.

1. You can see the number of hits a student has made on the server (a better indicator of activity, in my opinion, than time logged on) if you install (free) plugins such as "Most active users".  You'll find it in the Moodle org site - Downloads - Modules and plugins. This is on Moodle 1.9.
2. I believe teachers can get email alerts when students have completed work but I generally turn it off or I'd be inundated with hundreds of emails a day. I find it simpler to go to Moodle regularly and look in the "gradebook" to see a table of what students have done. Actually I export the gradebook as an Excel sheet as it's easier to read that way.
3. You can install a local a fully operational Moodle site on your desktop computer to play with. If you tell us which operating system you have and which version of Moodle you want to experiment with, we can give more detailed advice.
4. It will in fact be running on a server on your desktop so it's exactly the same as an online one. You'll need to create a few fake students to experiment what you can do with making groups, for example.

Have fun!

Glenys

Hi Tom,

Glossaries are very easy and simple to use in Moodle for both teachers and students. They are a kind of database. They can be used for teachers to present information to students (as an English teacher, I've created a "grammar glossary" for example), or they can be used by students to present the results of collective research on a subject: each student writes an article on a different endangered animal, for example. Students can comment on and rate each others' articles. Images, audio and video files from the Internet can be added.

A wiki can be more ambitious: students can collaborate on writing the same article. Students can create linked subpages to create a mini website. However, I've found the standard wiki on Moodle 1.9 rather buggy - I hope it's better on Moodle 2.0.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Mark

The http://www.conversionthingy.net/Default.aspx seems to work well for upgrading 1.9 couses to 2.0. See this thread: Restoring a course created in 1.9 into moodle 2.0

Sorry, can't help with the new file/content management system - I don't understand it at all. But there are workarounds: put everything in Legacy Course Files and pretend you're still in 1.9. I know it's "naughty" to do this but I don't understand why.

Cheers,

Glenys