Matthew Hope
iWHO
MSc Health and Wellbeing
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The course is a part-time distance course taken by elearning, online (2 years). Students are occupational health professionals. There are two separate course areas on Moodle (Year 1 & Year 2)
We found we were duplicating resources, posting course announcements twice, and with the students separate there were fewer opportunities for networking.
Forums were used for
We signposted the forums clearly, describing what they were for and how we were going to use them. We made sure to tell students what they were for right from the start.
We used "Forced subscription" where students cannot unsubscribe for important forums and "Auto subscription" where students are initially subscribed - so receive emails - but can choose to unsusbscribe.
We set forum tracking on so the number of unread posts were displayed).
We sent different announcements to different groups.
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It was really important to tell them clearly what the forums were for (and add a description), for example, they can’t reply to Announcements (News forum).
Students said they wanted important emails immediately so we advised them how to change their profile settings (which were initial set to a once-a-day digest) to Individual emails
Students appreciated forum tracking -- new posts are highlighted as soon as they go into the module (again this needs to be set in the module AND the students individually need to allow this in their profile)
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Video
Moodle Bytes webinar recording: Moodle forums on the MSc Health and Wellbeing with Matthew Hope
How to achieve this
Contact Matthew Hope with any questions Matthew.Hope@Nottingham.ac.uk
Please contact your local elearning support team.
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