Tuesday, September 27, 2011

View Student Activity

Occasionally you may need to view student activity.  Perhaps you need to see if a student has been active in a class, or perhaps you want to see participation as an assessment.   To see student activity on your Moodle site, begin by looking at Participants in the Course Menu Block.

This screen will show you who has accessed the class in order of most recent first.   From here you can choose several other view option.



 Here you can choose to see users by group or inactivity. 

You may also click on a participants name, then click on Activity Report tab to see what activities a participant has been active in.


Then:


The Outline report simply shows which activities a participant has accessed.  The Complete Report will show forum posts and responses as well as what activities the participant has viewed.







Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Gradebook - Hidden Grades

While individual assignments can be hidden in the gradebook, so can categories of grades.   If you haven't created categories, all of your grades will be in one category.  This can be hidden by closing the eyeball for "Grade Category". If students tell you that they cannot see their grades, look to see that this setting hasn't been checked and students grades are hidden. 

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Moodle Lock Feature: create prerequisite locks for resources and activities

The Moodle Lock feature allows an instructor to lock out an activity or resource from a student until they have completed prerequisite activites.  Prerequisites can include achieving a set score on an assessment or assignment, or be as simple as opening a resource.










To lock an activity or resource, click on the lock icon at the end of the editing tools.  In this example I am clicking the Lock for Chapter 1 Quiz



On the webpage that opens you see a list of all activities and resources for your course.   Checking "User must access this activity" forces the student to open the activity before they can access whichever item you clicked the lock for.  You can also require prerequisite scores on an activities.  In this instance, I am requiring that students receive a 75 on their study questions.   Now students are not allowed to take Chapter 1 Quiz until they have passed the Study Questions activity with at least a grade of 75.

If you are familiar with Blackboard, this function was called 'Selective Release'.

Stop by the ITC if you want to learn more about this feature.