Glenys Hanson

Hi there,

As an English as a foreign language teacher, one of the things I use a Glossary for is grammar/vocabulary/captialisation corrector for common mistakes. Unfortunately most students don't seem to notice the underlined/highlighted words in their published posts. I feel it would be pedagogically more effective if the underlining/highlighting were done in real time as they type - as is done in spelling correctors. In TinyMce I can't even recommend they install and use the Firefox spelling corrector - far too complicated to explain how to do it.

Am I asking for the moon? Is it just a pipe dream like the possibility of delivering a (small) electric shock over the Internet every time students write, for example, "since two years"?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Henny,

Have you (or your admin) checked the filters as I suggested above?

Have you changed to Standard Theme to see if it's a theme problem?

Have you (or your admin) turned on debugging to see if it tells you anything?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Barfuss,

Thanks for trying to help but I see I wasn't clear. I meant the Moodle contributed module Book. This is the one I'm referring to: Instructions for the interactive grammar exercises

There maybe isn't a way to have relative links from one module to another.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Itamar,

Answer to your "You put your finger precisely..." post which, because of the way these forums work, I didn't see before I answered your second post.

I actually agree with nearly everything you say above. When I ask students to express their opinions in forums, "What do you think about...?" I don't assess them on the content of their opinions, just on the fact that they've replied. I'm an English as foreign language teacher who believes that what is important is that they write a lot in English so everyone who replies in a forum gets a grade of 100%, regardless of the opinions expressed.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Itamar,

Maybe I don't understand what you mean by instructors cheating. To me cheating means not playing by the rules of the game. It's fairly obvious what the rules are in traditional exam: students are expected to memorise information and reguritate it without reference to outside sources. Of course it's possible to change the rules of the game so that what is cheating in one type of exam is not in another.

But I don't know what rules you think instructors break that constitute cheating.

Though I don't have a lot of experience in grading students, when I did cheating was never a problem - I only remember two or three instances.

Cheers,

Glenys