Moodle tips
Mainly for the participants in our online courses
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Check your submission | |||
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Whenever you upload a document on a website - whether it is a journal submission system, INASP Moodle, or something else - it's always a good idea to try to download and open that document to make sure it has been uploaded properly. Errors sometimes happen during the uploading stage because of which your document may have been uploaded incompletely or may not have been uploaded at all! | |||
User profiles | |||
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You can see the profiles of your fellow course participants by
clicking on their names in the forums, in the participants list,
the online users block, etc. So write something about yourself in
your profile so others can get to know you | |||
Email copies of forum posts | |||
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Posts made on forums within a course are sent as email copies to people who have subscribed to those forums. You may be subscribed by default to the forums in the courses you are participating in. If you don't wish to receive the email copies, you can unsubscribe from any or all the forums. Just click the "unsubscribe from this forum" or "unsubscribe from all forums" link in any email copy of a forum post. You can also visit the forum and click "unsubscribe from this forum" in the "forum administration" block on the left. If you unsubscribe from the forums, please make sure you visit your course regularly to check the forum posts, for there might be a lot of great discussions going on! If there is a "news forum" in your course, you might not be able to unsubscribe from this forum because important announcements are made here by the course facilitator. | |||
When you will see peer assessments | |||
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You will see the assessments you've got from your peers only after
the assessment deadline. You will not be able to see them before
the deadline even if the assessments have been done. Please be
patient See phases of a peer assessment activity | |||
Open peer assessment activity | |||
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In an open peer assessment activity, the people getting assessments
can see the names of their assessors. So when you do an assessment,
you need to keep in mind that your name will be seen by the person
receiving the assessment. Please do not let this affect your
objective assessment of their work. Note: Peer assessors can always see the names of the people whose work they assess. Related: Single-blind peer assessment activity | |||
Single-blind peer assessment activity | |||
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In a single-blind peer assessment activity, the people getting
assessments cannot see the names of their assessors. Note: Peer assessors can always see the names of the people whose work they assess. Related: Open peer assessment activity | |||
What to do if you've not received any assessments | |||
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There's a small chance that none of the people who have been
allocated your work completed the assessment. This is
an unfortunate outcome (but hopefully rare). If you don't see a
"grade for submission" when in fact you have submitted your work,
we will award you credit for the activity as long as you have
assessed the submissions allocated to you. We will be looking at
the course logs to determine who has done what. So don't
worry! | |||
What to do if you get disconnected while taking the pre/post quiz | |||
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You can make only one attempt on the pre assessment and post
assessment quizzes. If you get disconnected while taking any of
these quizzes and can't complete your attempt, please write to Ravi
- rmurugesan@inasp.info
- and mention the name of your online course / learning space and
the name of the quiz. | |||
How pre/post assessment data helps us | |||
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Your score in the pre and post assessment quizzes will help
us learn what impact the workshop has had on your knowledge of the key
concepts. And you have something to gain as well: after you take the
post assessment quiz, you can see the answer key and thus validate your
knowledge of the key concepts. | |||
Being part of the AuthorAID community | |||
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There's more than one way to be part of the large AuthorAID
community!
AuthorAID is run by INASP, an international development charity in the UK, and we work in the areas of research access, research production, research uptake, and so on, all with a focus on developing countries. If you're interested in INASP's work...
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How grades are calculated for a peer assessment activity | |||
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There are 2 grades for a peer assessment activity: grade for
submission and grade for assessment. In many cases, a full score is
awarded for both if you submit your work and assess at least one
submission allocated to you. The grades don't matter in a peer
assessment activity, unless stated otherwise. It is important to
submit your work and assess all the submissions allocated to you.
If you do this, your work in the activity will be considered
complete. | |||
How to search forums | |||
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When you visit any forum, you'll see a "search forums" box at the
top of the forum. Enter one or more keywords and do a search. Go
through the results and click the "advanced search" link under the
"search forums" box if you wish to refine your search. If your
keywords don't show any results, you'll see a form to do an
advanced search. In general, start with one or two simple keywords
and then refine your search if you get too many results. | |||
Message on homepage about quizzes that are due | |||
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On your homepage on this site, you may see a message such as "you
have quizzes that are due" if there are quizzes in the course you
are taking. This message will appear if there's any quiz that has a
deadline sometime before the end of the course. It could well be
that the quiz is not yet available for you to attempt, but the
message will still appear on your homepage. In this case you can
ignore the message. Just focus on completing the lessons and
activities for the current week or unit of the course you are
taking. | |||
Deadline reminders in upcoming events or calendar block | |||
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If there's an upcoming events block or calendar block on your
course homepage, you can see upcoming deadlines in this block. By
default, deadlines occurring in the next 10 days are shown. When
you complete an activity, the deadline message related to this
activity may persist on the upcoming events or calendar block. It
won't disappear until the deadline has passed. Please don't be
concerned by this. To check whether you have completed an activity,
go to the activity page to check if your work has been submitted or
see whether a completion check mark has appeared against that
activity. (For peer assessment activities, see this: Phases of a peer
assessment activity) | |||
ALERT: Upcoming events block is not yet activated | |||
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After you complete the pre assessment quiz, the course material
will become available to you and therefore the upcoming events
block will be activated. If you haven't yet completed the pre
assessment quiz, whatever message you see in the upcoming events
block (eg, "no deadlines in the next 10 days") may not be correct.
So please complete this quiz as soon as possible! | |||
Expiry of courses on INASP Moodle | |||
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Any course on INASP Moodle will
remain open for at least one month after the end of the course.
This is a "read only" period and you cannot participate in course
activities. Facilitators or moderators will not be available to
provide support, and discussion forums may be closed. However, in
this one-month period, you will be able to access the course
material and save what you'd like to, such as the course content,
results of quizzes, and evaluations you may have received. Beyond
one month after the course end date, the course may be deleted or
reset and will not be available. If we plan to delete or reset a
course, we will give advance notice of at least 2 weeks by making a
post on the news forum of the course. If you remain subscribed to
the news forum after the end of the course, you'll get a copy of
this notification by email. Still, we recommend that you save the
course material within one month of the course ending. | |||
Acknowledging AuthorAID courses in your publications | |||
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If you would like to give credit to an AuthorAID online course in
any of your manuscripts (eg, in the "acknowledgements section"), we
suggest this wording: "<your name> gained useful knowledge
on research writing from an AuthorAID online course run by INASP".
Please note the correct way to write AuthorAID with "AID"
capitalised (it is not "AuthorAid"), and please make sure you
mention INASP too because
this is AuthorAID's parent organisation. Thank you | |||
How to bookmark a webpage | |||
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We recommend that you bookmark INASP Moodle or your
active learning spaces on INASP Moodle. In most
web browsers, you can quickly bookmark a webpage by pressing the
Control and D keys together when you're on that webpage. When you
do this, you'll see a small dialog box asking you to confirm. In
the Google Chrome browser, bookmarks are normally added to the
bookmarks bar by default, which is right under the address bar. So
you can always see your bookmarked pages. In Mozilla Firefox and
Internet Explorer, you can make a webpage appear in the bookmarks
bar. Just change the bookmark location after pressing Control and
D. | |||
Managing forum subscriptions | |||
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If your course has discussion forums, you may be subscribed to them
initially -- or you may not be. If you are subscribed to a
forum, it means you'll receive an email with any new post made
on that forum. This way, you can keep in touch with the forum
discussions without actually logging into INASP Moodle. If
you are not subscribed, you will not receive email copies of
posts. But you're still part of the forum and you can engage in
discussions. To check your subscription status for a forum, visit
that forum and look at the "forum administration" menu (usually on
the left hand side). If you see "subscribe to this forum", it means
you are not currently subscribed. You can click this link to
subscribe. If you see "unsubscribe from this forum", it means you
are subscribed and you can click this link if you wish to not
receive email copies of posts made on that particular forum. If a
course has many forums, you'll need to subscribe to or unsubscribe
from each forum individually. See also: Subscription to the news forum | |||