In an earlier post I was pondering how
to make classroom materials moodle friendly so that an IELTS course
could be delivered through the platform as a distance course. I
believe I have been largely successful in that task although time and
students will be the judge of that. However a piece of feedback from
one of the initial students to use the course was that the course was
unsuitable because it was missing certain elements. Elements which I
had put into the course because as the student quite rightly pointed
out they are quite important for the study of IELTS. It can them be
assumed that the problem is not the course content but moodle
navigation. After some discussions with colleagues it seems the
problem is the inverse to the initial one of making moodle friendly
courses in as much as we need to make moodle courses friendly to the
user.
I have not yet worked out how to do
this but my first step has been to put a link with pictures to the
teacher profiles so it is clear how to contact them with an
additional skype button so students are made aware that it is, not
only ok but, encouraged to use skype as a means of communication. To
me this is just a cosmetic difference but may indeed make students
feel more welcome on the site the larger task will be to make the
site easily navigable for students whose native language is not
English. Perhaps in this case the tab settings to reduce scroll of
death are not helpful and should be removed to make way for visible
(and larger) icons.
… to be continued
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