As a Moodle administrator, am quite enjoying the experience of being a Moodle student. And am finding some things I would like…
1. Intuitive forum handling. My fellow students struggle with the e-mail copies and the read/unread messages. The first PD session I did on Moodle had the same results – all my participants bewildered and overwhelmed at the message deluge. And you control that in your profile where the controls have some outlandish names. Read/unread messages is called Forum tracking…
2. Ability to tag a post for future reference, or as “I must come back to this.” The USQ course is very text heavy, with a combination of the wiki, the blogs and the forum posts in Moodle to track. Sometimes I read a post but am not ready to answer yet. Wouldn’t it be good if I could tag it/flag it to return at later stage?
3. Why not a drafts place for your posts, so you can start a message but let it sit in the system until you are ready to post. Most blogs offer this functionality. Does anyone know of an LMS that does? Is there a reason why LMSs wouldn’t?
One of my tasks this year is to come to grips with Moodle- you seem like just the person to lend a hand if I get stuck!
I found you via the new http://kiwiedubloggers.pbwiki.com/
Nice to meet you Allanah and would be happy to help with Moodle if you can help me with Ning! I’m looking at it as a platform for a CoP at our institution.
Have just read (with growing envy) your post about working with Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for the last 6 weeks. Some of the most powerful nodes in our ed tech network, I think.
Personal learning networks new challenges
I see you’re in Motueka and Marlborough just happens to be on my list of places to visit this year…