What’s right or wrong with these Moodle Use Guideposts for Students?
Updated 10/11/2009 – The original Moodle Access Rules document posted here has been removed at the copyright holder’s request. As such, this offers an opportunity to revise these as guidelines or guideposts that we need to keep in mind. Revisions may mean that comments shared previously (the first 2) are no longer relevant to the posting but are certainly important to keep in mind as suggestions.
Obviously, the Guideposts below are intended for a specific audience (students in high school mathematics). They need more work.
Moodle Use Guideposts for Students
The Math Department Moodle site enables you to share ideas online with each other. What you are learning about Math, you can share online. Since this is a school-related resource, please follow these guideposts in sight when sharing ideas:
- Encourage each other to share ideas about math content you are learning about online.
- Everything you do is public–that includes messages you send, discussion forum posts, assignments you upload, blog entries you write–and can be read by school district staff members to ensure no cyberbullying is taking place. Keep that in mind.
- Anything you do online that may violate the school district’s acceptable use policy will result in disciplinary action. Please treat others as you would have them treat you in a college-level learning environment.
- If you encounter any inappropriate use of the Moodle–whether someone hacked your account, left an inappropriate remark–then please let the Moodle moderator know.
- If you are interested in creating and submitting a video to be featured on the front page of the site, please share how you are modelling the Math Process to solve a real life problem.
How could this be improved or extended?
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Who are these rules for – looks like a set of rules to satisfy the school or state so there is no comeback on them if anything 'goes wrong'? None of my students would bother reading those, and if they did they would then probably not bother to use moodle (just go back to communicating via facebook/bebo etc)
Who are these rules for – looks like a set of rules to satisfy the school or state so there is no comeback on them if anything 'goes wrong'? None of my students would bother reading those, and if they did they would then probably not bother to use moodle (just go back to communicating via facebook/bebo etc)
I think it might be useful to try to rewrite the rules using only positive statements. It might not be possible for all of them but could work for most. It would also be good to have statements about what students can do – suggestions for ways to use Moodle successfully.
I think it might be useful to try to rewrite the rules using only positive statements. It might not be possible for all of them but could work for most. It would also be good to have statements about what students can do – suggestions for ways to use Moodle successfully.