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On clicking the Echo360 block the students see a page with links to all recordings: Image Added
What did students think?
Students could choose to submit to the image bank as one of their assessments: there were 130 submissions with typically 4 or 5 comments. There were posters and
Image Bank: 66% of the students who attempted it rated it as Good or Excellent
Posters: This was a popular activity with over 93% of the students who attempted it rating it as good or excellent
Recommendations and tips
The database takes a little bit of time to set up initially but worked extremely well, especially combined with completion tracking. It was easy for students to submit to, easy to mark, and students were able to make comments on each others, too.
The peer assessment relied on students? interest and motivation (later submissions were less likely to be graded by peers), so for a more formal peer assessment, or higher stakes assessment, the Moodle Workshop tool would be more effective. However, facilitators were able to grade the late submissions so it worked well for us.
More information
See it for yourself:
- Self-enrol on the Perspectives in Sustainability module and check Week 2 (Image Bank) and Week 8 (Poster submission) http://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=12499
How to achieve this:
- Moodle Help Guide: How to add a database activity
- Moodle Help Guide: Conditional activities and completion tracking
Videos / webinar recordings
It's all very easy - the lectures are added automatically to the list – there's no need for the lecturer to do anything once the block is added.
Students like the access to videos – obviously if they missed the lecture (and no, attendance hasn?t fallen due to videoing either), if they were there but didn?t pick everything up or finally if they want to revise from the lecture directly. Students very positive and mentioned it in LCF as done by my colleague in Macro L11200 as a good thing.
Recommendations and tips
You don?t need to be in the video – I?m not at all as I wander around the room – so it is the screen capture and the audio that matter most. Don?t be scared to say/do things in class simply because it is being videoed. Get booked in early especially when you have your timetable set (more awkward to remember if they are ad hoc sessions but can still be done providing a little notice is given.
More information
Moodle Help
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