Moodle Boards – a virtual post-it note activity added to Moodle

Moodle Boards have been added to the variety of activity options available in Moodle courses. A Board allows students and staff to add post-its to a virtual board where they may be organised and optionally ranked. Post-its may include plain text, images, links and YouTube videos.

On the Board, Students can:

• Add a new post with any of the following:
  • A heading.
  • Some text.
  • A link.
  • An uploaded image.
  • An embedded YouTube video.
• Edit or Delete one of their posts.

They can also do the following depending on the board’s settings:

• Move their notes among columns.
• Star (vote up) someone else’s post.

The teacher can set up the activity with the following options:

• A closing date for submissions.
• How the posts are ordered in a column, by date or star count.
• Whether posts can be starred – by students, teachers, or neither.

On the board a teacher can:

• Move any of the posts from one column to another.
• Download a copy of the board contents.
• Download a spreadsheet of submissions of the students.

 

A Moodle mini-guide for the tool is also available.