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How to enforce deadlines on your language syllabus using Moodle

2012/01/23 1 comment
  1. Experience seems to make teachers much prefer if students “try and fight with the computer over deadlines”, or rather spend their time studying instead of arguing about excuses why not study (“Dog ate my homework"- syndrome).
  2. When you create a Moodle assignment, in each assignment type you will find a fields that allow you to create a time window
    1. before
    2. and after which the assignment is not available to students.
  3. For easier remembering, assignments with deadlines
    1. automatically appear in the Moodle Calendar
    2. and can be made to automatically show in the NINERMAIL calendar
  4. Hint: provide some extra credit to ease the pain of learning how to meet deadlines which are a requirement for progression in learning a language, especially when not doing independent study, but interacting within a cohort.
    1. Suggested: “Best 3 out of 5” for first-time users, “4 out of 5” for tech-savvy.
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