Tag: Groupwork

Moodle 2: Ideas for Innovative Assignments

Our educational technology team have identified a number of tools that can be used to help build innovative assessments in your modules. These can be seen in the diagram below. For more ideas, visit our website link here. Tool Available from Types of assessment City Blogs is a service for staff and students to bloAg…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Ideas for Innovative Assignments

Moodle 2: A guide to enabling groupwork

Group work is one of the educational strategies, that if employed well, can promote collaboration and participation amongst students. Group work can also nurture a more active and deeper learning experience and can provide lecturers with valuable insights into the way students understand particular topics and or concepts. In addition to exposing students to different…Continue Reading Moodle 2: A guide to enabling groupwork

Moodle 2: engaging students in collaborative activities

Are you interested in doing more group work with your students? Or do you already conduct group work with your students in their taught hours but struggle to understand how to encourage them to continue whilst off campus? Context A number of reasons exist that provide reasons for educators to focus on the development of…Continue Reading Moodle 2: engaging students in collaborative activities

Top tips on making your lectures count!

With a sea of distant heads in front of you bowed over their notes it can be very difficult to tell whether your lectures are working well or not. Students will not answer questions so you cannot tell if they understand. The normal clues are missing and the normal informal methods of finding out do…Continue Reading Top tips on making your lectures count!