Mary Cooch (personal account)

Yes Howard, please look and put us all out of our misery (well Robert and me...)

Sorry Robert - I have been following this too in the background along with Howard and I can't replicate how you - an admin - are unable to post. I presume you have tried on different browsers and looked at the code to see if something is hidden?

Do you mean that you want that top screenshot to appear at the side of your bottom screenshot? The top screenshot is of the navigation drawer in a 3+ Moodle site, but your bottom screenshot is of the front page of a Moodle 4.0 site. The navigation drawer (if that is the 'side block' you mean) has been replaced in Moodle 4.0 by a 'Course index' which you can see when you go into a course, if you have made a course. See here Les Nouveautés de Moodle 4.0

Re (quote) younger &/or less motivated students, I've found that doing the first few self-study activities together in class & providing immediate feedback, which Moodle can do in some cases automagically, tends to get better participation rates later.

Hi there - I'm just piggy-backing on your post to remind people that there is a course (and discussion forum and webinar recording) about Teaching Languages with Moodle over on Moodle Academy.

I actually participate in a Russian class every Thursday night (on Zoom not on Moodle) where the teacher uses the Flipped learning model. We all have to watch a video on a certain contemporary topic, do some pre-course activities and then continue in the class. It works though I think because the small group is at a high level (B2+/C1) and motivated. Also we don't do grammar in the flipped learning mode - I read your blog post- I haven't used flipped learning for grammar instruction; I think I would be a little reticent, simply because I like/liked the 'control' aspect of being able to introduce something in the way that I want it presented. On the other hand, I taught young learners who couldn't all be relied on to do stuff before class (or even afterwards ;) ) and perhaps those language teachers who teach self-regulated adults might have more success.