Tutors are struggling to make Moodle learner friendly or to use the platform imaginatively. This is largely because there is no way to organise links to activities effectively: you cannot structure well (only list & indent), you cannot provide a narrative or clear instructions (labels are cumbersome, inadequate and display… Continue reading
Students come to a Moodle course to carry out a task, not browse. Almost always they’ll already know the task before they log in Continue reading
From time to time, variations of the same question, “What is this for?”, have arisen in the Moodle workshops; I think this is a fundamentally good and a fundamentally important question for everyone building a course to ask, particularly if they are working with a campus-based cohort Continue reading
Sometimes the most eye-opening insights seem the most obvious once you’ve heard them. That was certainly the case for me when I listened to Barry Spencer, from Bromley College, talk about VLEs at a recent Partner College meeting Continue reading
I’ve been spending a fair proportion of my time lately trying to work out how to give useful advice to staff about pedagogical approaches to help them in the design of their Moodle course areas Continue reading