Day: June 12, 2015

Moodle restrict access settings

Improvements to personalising module content in Moodle 2.8

Moodle restrict access settings

This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of improvements to Restrict access which can help you to personalise module content in Moodle. Restrict access also known as conditional release enables you to restrict the availability of any activity, resource or even…Continue Reading Improvements to personalising module content in Moodle 2.8

Two meanings of “critically analyse”

As an academic skills tutor, I’m often faced with a student clutching a set of assessment criteria containing the phrase “critically analyse”, or a synonym of that instruction.  In my experience, many students understand the broad concept of critical analysis (e.g. being sceptical, not taking information on face value, evaluating evidence, etc), but have difficulty…Continue Reading Two meanings of “critically analyse”