LIT2T Leadership Guide

69 TO: TABLE OF CONTENTS Chat Activity Module The Chat activity module enables course participants to have text-based conversations in real time with other course participants. (Stage 3) Choice A CHOICE is an activity module, which provides a means to run polls, elections or general information gathering from participants in a course. (Stage 2) Comments Block The Comments block allows comments in a course within the sidebar navigation. Both learners and instructors can use it to comment back and forth; postings are time-stamped and display the poster’s identity. (Stage 3) Completion Tracking The completion tracking feature adds check boxes next to activities and resources on the main course pages. These check boxes allow a learner to quickly see which activities he/she has and hasn’t completed. (Stage 3) Conditional Release Conditional release enables instructors to release resources and activities for their learners based on specific criteria such as date, a grade in an activity or participation. (Stage 3) Crossword A Moodle game that takes terms from a course glossary or a short answer quiz and generates a random crossword puzzle. This random feature ensures that students in the same class should not see the same crossword activity. Cryptex A Moodle Game that extracts words from a course glossary or a short answer quiz and generates a random word search with clues that are similar to a crossword. Database Activity The database activity allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a set of record entries about any topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text. Folder A folder module enables learners to view multiple documents. (Stage 3) File A file permits linking to internal or web based pictures, documents, spreadsheets, and audio or video files that are uploaded to the course’s file directory. (Stage 2) Forum A forum allows participants to have asynchronous discussions with each other and the instructor while enrolled in a course. (Stages 2 and 3)