Moodle

Students’ activity in the first 4 weeks of using their Moodle courses Click here for full size First impressions I was rather surprised to see that students enrolled in the non-gamified course have interacted with activities & resources more than the students enrolled in the gamified course (3,634 clicks vs 3,423), as it contradicts figures gathered in week 1 of the experiment. However, the figures above only show clicks to resources & activities, and do notinclude visits to the course homepage, to check if badges have been unlocked, for example....

You can read the post about week 1 here. The course Context The course I have designed is nothing Earth-shattering, but it seems to work well in the given context (MYP Technology, 12 year olds). At the end of the 11 week unit of work (could be called ‘project’), students need to hand in two deliverables: the product (usually a Scratch animation) their documentation of the process (usually a 15-30 page word processed document) In this unit of work students are to use technology to create a tutorial to teach others a dance choreography they have put together....

I announced a few weeks back that I would try and quantify the increase in engagement I have noticed when gamifying my Moodle courses. I have just started teaching two similar groups, and one has been exposed to the regular course, and the other to a gamified version of it. I will post my findings every week, and will draw a summary at the end of the experiment. This post retraces what has happened in the first week of the experiment....

Aside from the out-of-the-box standard scales, you have the ability to create your own scales, and few teachers I speak to realise that those scales don’t have to be made up of words. Whatever you decide to use, always design your scales in an increasing order of value. Why bother? Sometimes using images, pictogram or symbols is a more efficient way to convey an idea than words or even sentences. This is especially true when working with young students or with students with ESL....