In a recent survey I conducted, most of my younger students complained that Moodle is not ‘fun’ enough and that they would like to see more use of educational games. I have already discussed and quickly reviewed the ‘Game’ module but today I’d like to focus on the ‘Crossword’ component of the module. Below is a video showing you the crossword in action I have found the crossword to be versatile and have used it for the following:...
The ‘Checklist‘ package (updated less than a week ago) is very easy to use, and creating your first self-assessment with it should be a breeze, as long as your criteria for self-assessment are clear and easily understandable by students. Although it is a great resource, I must warn you that the Checklist package does not allow for a scale to be used (e.g. I am very confident doing this, I am confident doing this, I am sometimes confident doing this, I am not confident doing this, I do not know how to do this) and you should use either the ‘Questionnaire‘ or the ‘Feedback‘ modules to achieve this, though in my opinion it takes longer to setup and is not as ‘child friendly’....
Note: I no longer maintain this system as I moved schools mid-2011. This post was written on January 4th 2011. I conducted a survey at my current previous school (December 2010) and am sharing some of the results here. Some of the results confirmed findings through observation, some were obvious, others not so much. I used the ‘Questionnaire‘module to create and deliver the survey (all through Moodle) and then exported the results to Excel to perform a more refined analysis than the module would allow....
Note: I no longer maintain this system as I moved schools mid-2011. This post was written on January 4th 2011. I have spent the past 3 years heavily modifying our installation of Moodle. This is a showcase of the new capabilities I have added to our site. Our site is still using 1.9 as the changes are not compatible with Moodle 2. The main modifications consist of 3 parts: Design Reward System Electronic Attendance Design I adapted the ‘Round Corners’ CSS theme to match it with the St Andrews colour scheme....
Walking through the school corridors, I often overhear comments such as “I don’t like ——– (insert subject here) because it’s booooring” or “I love ——— (insert subject here) because it’s soooo fun, we play games all the time”. This post deals with making Moodle more interesting and engaging for students, especially the younger ones. I recently conducted a student survey at my current school (High School only) and found out that “more games” is the most requested feature by the lower High School students....