In my attempts to make moodle more
friendly, particularly for foreign students I have been thinking a
lot about sign posting. Not in the traditional sense of arrows which
point one way or the other but more about providing a platform that
is easy for students to navigate by using links and icons.
To an extent I think I had some success
in this area with the LTC moodle and the beautifully designed icons
which were both visually striking and containing relevant
information. In my IELTS course I am slightly restricted by the
confines of the course layout so there is no possibility for big
icons as such.
What I started with was a set of bullet
points directing students to activities which they should complete
before starting on their course.
It is clear that
this set of instructions was lacking in some way when a student asked
why there was no practice test to ascertain level built into the
course.
What I did to improve this situation
was to rewrite the section into as set of points each of which
including a link which takes students straight to the item they need
to read or complete. This has the effect of removing at least one
stage of the process and giving students a more straightforward link
to the information you need them to have.
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