Section outline

    • Forums


    • This page contains a video gives a quick demonstration of how forums work in Moodle.

    • Enable this to ease the work of grading students' participation in forums. 

    • This is the "old" method of grading forums. Some faculty configure this to allow another method of interacting on forums.

    • This page take you through the steps of creating a forum that students complete in "group mode" which means they post and reply only to those who have been assigned to the same group.

    • When subscribed to forums, updates are sent to users' email. This page summarizes how to configure it.
    • Padlet allows users to create a virtual bulletin board (alone or with collaborators).

    • Is there a way to have students get notification that another has commented on their Padlet post?

    • Perusall


    • Other Methods of Interacting


      • Students respond to a prompt
      • All appear on one page
      • No replies
      • Upvotes

    • Wikis are just like Wikipedia-a collection of pages that can be edited by anyone enrolled your course (or a group). 

    • Allow students to upload images and comment on galleries of images. 

    • Add a folder where students can upload files. This can also be a better option for adding files to your course than the Folder activity.

    • Add a collection of student-created galleries where you and students can upload files to be viewed by everyone in the course.

    • Use this tool to add videos that have embedded questions.