My hybrid classes are such a delight to me, but enrollment is low and gets lower as students discover they are real classes and they’ve overloaded their schedule. Trouble is, that means that fewer sources get posted in the forum each week. Since the writing in the class is all about creating and proving theses using the evidence posted by the whole class, when fewer people participate, there aren’t as many sources to use as evidence.
Right now I have several sections of the same class in Moodle, but I set the forums as Separate Groups. These are separate sections of the class, each with their own dynamic and needs. For two classes, one of each of the sections is the hybrid I see at San Elijo each week. A student stayed after class today, worried that there wouldn’t be enough sources since not everyone is posting.
Going back to my office to solve the problem, I was hoping there was an easy way to have my hybrid sections see what the online sections were posting, so they could use their sources also in their writing. In fact, now that no one is lost, and everyone knows where to post their work, there’s no reason why all sections of the same class can’t see each others’ sources and use them.
This proved to be a really easy fix. I simply changed each forum from Separate Groups to Visible Groups. But I needed a way to let everyone know what was going on, so I used Screenr.
Total fix time? Less than an hour, including the screencasts.
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