Creating activities

Moodle also offers activities in which the students interact with one another. These are used to create social course material, such as the following:

  • Chat (live online chat between students)
  • Forum (you can have none or several online bulletin boards for each course)
  • Glossary (students and/or teachers can contribute terms to site-wide glossaries)
  • Wiki (this is a familiar tool for collaboration with most younger students and many older students)
  • Workshop (this supports peer review and feedback of the assignments that the students upload)

In addition, some of Moodle's add-on modules add even more types of interaction. For example, one add-on module enables the students and the teachers to schedule appointments with each ...

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