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 Conducting a Seminar Online through a Moodle Discussion Forum
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- You can prepare questions or instructions in advance and paste them into the forum.
- In wording your prompts, avoid open-ended questions ("What did you think about…?"). Ask specific questions and/or use precise terms for activities ("Find three quotes that interested you and explain why.")
- You could also prepare some short summaries or closing remarks that you intend to include. You could add to or edit these on the basis of student contributions.
- You can also ask students to prepare specific things in advance to contribute: to write something or to bring a question, find an interesting online resource, take a photo.
Student contributions
- If asking students to respond to other students' contributions, be explicit about what they should contribute. You could try
- Jigsaw prompts: ask students to identify something that is currently missing
- Snowball prompts: ask students to build on an existing contribution, e.g. add another example that supports it.
- As well as written responses, you could allow students to share images. This allows them to draw, write freehand, annotate an article, or share a photograph.
- The session may feel 'cold' compared to a normal seminar, without audio or video. Be explicit in writing: thank students for contributing, use positive words where you can (interesting / useful / great).
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