Tag: pedagoginen

Both teachers and students should treat assignment deadlines in Moodle with respect or mayhem may ensue!

The teachers on their part should make assignments available well in advance of the deadline and they should never set a deadline later than 23.55 hrs on any given day! Once a deadline has passed, teachers ought to comment on the work handed in (If you are not going to give feedback in Moodle, why use an assignment in the first place?!) and contact students or groups who have failed to hand in.

Students on their part should always use a safety margin when handing in work and not wait until the last day and the last minute. It is perfectly possible to hand in draft versions of a task and overwrite those with later versions, so that if unforeseen problems occur, such as network connection interruptions, the student will still have work handed in, while it remains possible to request an extension of the deadline to compensate for the network issue. Naturally, students should also check the feedback the teacher provides after the assignment deadline has passed.

Regularly, the eLearning Centre receives support requests from teachers who wish to modify the tasks they have given their students in Moodle, but this is not always possible after the fact. Ideally, teachers plan their course(s) and the course tasks in advance, so that all course materials and activities are present in Moodle at the start of the course timetable. The advantage of this approach is that teachers can reflect on the nature of the activities and what they wish to achieve with them. Moodle has shared activities, in which students always see the work of others in their group (like the forum or the chat), and individual activities, in which the student’s work is visible only to the teachers (like the assignment and the quiz), and activities that can do both (like the database, the glossary and the wiki). It is important to choose the right Moodle activity for the kind of task(s) you have in mind.

Here is a shortlist of task descriptions and the most suitable Moodle activity for that task. See if you have chosen the best activities for your tasks:

Verkko-opintojakson suunnittelu edellyttää sisältöjen suunnittelun lisäksi opetus- ja opiskelumenetelmien suunnittelua. Hyvä lähtökohta on miettiä, että mitä opiskelijat tekevät saavuttaakseen asetetut osaamistavoitteet ja oppiakseen sisällöt? Tällöin suunnittelun keskiössä ovat oppimistehtävät ja oppimisen ohjaus ja vasta tämän jälkeen teknologiset ratkaisut.

Opetus- ja oppimisprosessi kannattaa kuvata oppijalle etukäteen,  esimerkiksi toteutussuunnitelmassa, sillä se: