How to make a teacher using Moodle happy, again

How to make a teacher happy using moodle?

Help them.  Help them by looking at their course while they are developing it and provide resources to help them build a really good course with good content and activities. 

"Hey teacher, did you know you could use this activity for that...."  or

"Hey teacher, that looks great, loved the content, did you know you can add .....".

Also - when the course is *done, back it up for them.  Tell the teacher that you have created a new master from their updates and will use it for future deployments.  This motivates the teacher too!

Scenario 1

How to make a teacher happy using moodle?

Tell them how good their course looks, back it up and tell them their changes have been put into the new master course.
 
From a teacher:

Hi

I'm done with all the updates to the course.

Updates included: taking out course references to specific pages in textbook, updated new text in syllabus, course schedule (took out specific textbook pages to read and reworded to be more of a general topic to read in textbook) unit guides (same thing), unit assignments (instead of referencing book questions, I just put the actual questions right in the course).  I also double checked the quizzes/tests to ensure coverage was with student research within the course).

It took 11 total hours. I will send in the sheet you sent me this week.

Angela

Scenario 2

How to make a teacher happy using moodle?

Save them time by updating course activities in the DB.  Give them what they are asking for.  Help them help their students.  I told the teacher I would take care of this for her.  I went into the DB and updated the quiz attempt settings.

From a teacher:

Mike,

If every assignment except tests have 3 attempts; we should do okay.

Gerunds were the first grammar item, and the kids had never studied them before.  They liked the videos; I'll try to keep finding videos.Someday, Ill do my own--when I have time. (Cue the laughter...)

I'm pleased to say the kids are sending emails and messages through Moodle.  They like the idea of naming our group.  

Thank you for everything,

Susie

Scenario 3

How to make a teacher happy using moodle?

Eliminate the need for them to re-create the same changes in a course.  This teacher make changes to a course deployed for her.  Then a couple weeks later, had the same course deployed, without her changes.  I was able to create a new course from her original course, keeping the changes she was lamenting about.

From the teacher.

Hi Mike...couple of questions/concerns.

Why are the Brockport students in their own section of Euro and not in with Jack and Jericho?

And, remember at the beginning of the course how I had to go in and make changes because Moodle was a mess? I deleted content, added content, corrected assignments, etc.  If the Brockport students have to be in their own section, is there anyway to copy the edited VAP Euro Part I over to their section? I spent like 5-6 hours editing that course and I really don't want to recreate it.

Is there anyway the tech guys might be able to help?

Scenario4

How to make a teacher happy using moodle?  

Help them by moving students and their progress into a new course, where the teacher can change the graded / course requirements.  One size does not fit all!

From the teacher:

Owen p and Leelaya p are the two students I would like placed in their own section.  They are both Gananda students and use their resource class time for Consumer Math.  The resource teacher (Abby Harbol) and I had a long conversation yesterday about the students and how much they are struggling in the course already.  Originally she wanted to see if we could stretch Consumer Math A to a full year but then realized that the students needed the second half of the course in order to get the full credit they need.  So I decided that if you could put them in their own section, I could eliminate some of the quizzes to help them out and without effecting the other students enrolled in Consumer Math.  For example, there are 6 or 8 quizzes on fractions in Unit 2 -- both Owen and Leelaya are having a difficult time with fractions, I might eliminate 4 or 5 of those quizzes when they are in their own section leaving the projects and exams for them to be graded on.

Thank you,

J J

AccelerateU Instructor