Creating a journal assignment in moodle course
- 1. Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course
- 2. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course After logging in to Moodle, click on the course in which you want to create a Journal assignment in. In this case, click on Demo Course.
- 3. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Then click on the Turn editing on button at the top right corner to switch to the editing mode.
- 4. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course After turning on the editing mode, under Topic outline (or Weekly outline), choose a topic (or week) in which you want to create a Journal assignment. In this case, we choose Topic 2.
- 5. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Click on Add an activity to open the pull-down menu.
- 6. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Select Journal from the menu.
- 7. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course You must input a name for the Journal assignment into the Journal name field.
- 8. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course In this case, we type in “Assignment 1 Lesson Plan”.
- 9. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course You are then required to input text into the Journal question box.
- 10. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course For example, you could write something about the assignment, such as instructions or criteria, etc. In this case, we type in “Write a brief journal entry that reflects on your lesson plan.”
- 11. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course You can set the duration of the journal's availability to students. Click on the pull-down menu next to Days available to see the options.
- 12. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course By default, Always open is set, allowing students to write and submit their journals at any time without a due date. Here in this case, we choose Always open.
- 13. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course You can select a grade scale or a maximum mark (up to 100) for the journal.
- 14. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course By default, No grade is set. Click on the Grade field to change it.
- 15. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Click on the Save and return to course button at the bottom of the page to finish.
- 16. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course You can see that a Journal assignment, named Assignment 1 Lesson Plan has been successfully created in Topic 2.
- 17. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Characteristics of Journal assignment in Moodle: • Every student has their own journal • Each journal is private between student and teacher • Journal can be viewed and edited by the journal owner only • Journal can be viewed but cannot be edited by teacher • Journal can be graded and commented by teacher • Grade and feedback can be viewed by the journal owner only
- 18. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Moodle Series: Creating a Journal Assignment in a Moodle Course Web page: http://www.ied.edu.hk/lttc Email: lttc@ied.edu.hk This learning series numbered MOT54-12.08.v2 of the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong License.