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Wiki - Class Resource Library. Generate Reports in Moodle. You can generate one of a selection of reports for the course. Generate logs In the Settings block, under Course administration, click Reports. From the expanded Reports menu, select which report you want to see (this example shows Logs). In the Choose which logs you want to see page, make parameter selections in the drop-down lists (learning resource/activity, included and excluded participants, date, actions, report format). Click Get these logs to fetch the selected records. Generate course participation reports For some courses, student participation in forums plays a significant role in determining their final mark.

Use the Course participation report to send messages to participants who may be falling behind on certain learning material. In the Settings block, under Course administration, click Reports. Learning to Teach Online. About | SNAPP. Overview: SNAPP – User Guide: SNAPP User Guide_17June The Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) tool performs real-time social network analysis and visualization of discussion forum activity within popular commercial and open source Learning Management Systems (LMS). SNAPP essentially serves as a diagnostic instrument, allowing teaching staff to evaluate student behavioral patterns against learning activity design objectives and intervene as required a timely manner.

Valuable interaction data is stored within a discussion forum but from the default threaded display of messages it is difficult to determine the level and direction of activity between participants. The social network diagrams can be used to identify: isolated studentsfacilitator-centric network patterns where a tutor or academic is central to the network with little interaction occurring between student participantsgroup malfunctionusers that bridge smaller clustered networks and serve as information brokers. Hype. Four Lenses: Evaluation Resources - Teaching and Learning. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences encourages its teachers to engage in critical reflection on evidence about teaching and students' learning and to read the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Evaluation of Teaching Policy. This website offers tools to support a rich range of evaluation practices.

These are collected below under Stephen Brookfield's four lenses for critical reflection (self, student, peer and scholarly literature). Brookfield's lenses, or perspectives, range from systematic self-reflection, to reflecting on student feedback, to engaging in peer observation or review, and learning from scholarly literature. Click here for a short synopsis of Brookfield's Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (1995). Each of these Four Lenses offers tools and practices to support good and excellent teaching.

The Faculty asks teachers to engage in reflection, using at least one tool from the student lens and one from the self lens as a minimum practice. Journal of Learning Analytics. The Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) Tool and Visualizing Moodle Forums | Moodle News. Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! If you’re interested in some ways to visualize student engagement in the Moodle classroom, the Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) tool is something worth looking at. SNAPP is a bookmarklet available from which allows you to visualize the connections made in any Moodle discussion forum.

It’s very easy to use, there’s nothing to install to your server and the outcome is pretty slick. See this example at a The example below is of this Moodle.org forum which had a lost of posts and participants: The tool has several key parts: Get started with the download here: Another visualization option: