Glenys Hanson

Hi Gordon,

That's really useful to me too. And so nice of you to give a technical solution that you don't agree with pedagogically.

I think it depends on the kind of students you're working with. I've been lucky enough to mainly work with adults who actually want to learn English - not just get a good score - so it doesn't seem right to penalise them if it's a learning exercise and not a test. Maybe they just don't know the word or maybe they do but need the first letter to find it - I know I sometimes do.

I assume it'll work for the other apps and not just JCross?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Paul,

If you use the solution in Mary's video below (links to Topics in a side block) you could use Topic 0 to put the items you want users to always see when they log on.

I hadn't seen Mary's video before. Wish I had - the solution very simple and elegant.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Melissa,

There must be somebody at your school who has the Moodle role of "Administrator" : they install Moodle, update it, create accounts for students and teachers, create courses and allocate teachers and students to them... They control the Moodle roles other users have. Most users are either "Teachers" or "Students" - but these roles can be renamed. Maybe in your school the "Teacher" role has been renamed "Instructor". There is another role called "Course creator" which is a kind of sub Administrator role - it can be given to some or all "Teachers", it just means that they can create new, empty courses for themselves or others.

It seems to me that the problems you describe are not "Teacher" problems (creating the content of a course) but "Administrator" problems. It's your "Administrator" who should be asking questions here. The suggestions that Howard has made are for an "Administrator" not a "Teacher". A "Teacher" can't turn on debugging - only an "Administrator" can.

Hope this makes things a bit clearer.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Itamar,

Yes, I did have the problem of getting participants to log out and log in again the first time I did this,  but from then on, as it was in a face-to-face situation, I just distributed bits of paper (different for each person) with the instructions such as:

Go to http://uepd.quizport.com/ (a Moodle site I knew they weren't already logged into)

Login with the following:

Username: napoleon

Password: eee555UUU!!

Click on: Activités interactives et tâches collaboratives en ligne

A really low tech solution but it had everyone logged onto the course and working within 10 minutes of entering the workshop.

If you have a more elegant solution, I'm interested in that too.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Simon,

Unless your videos contain extremely private and sensitive information, you might simple put the the videos on YouTube and integrate them into your course through YouTube filter. They don't necessarily have to be open to the whole world. See: How To Host Unlimited Unlisted Content On YouTube.  I haven't actually tested it though.

Cheers,

Glenys