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The Moodle Baseline sets out the expectations of what an effective and useful LSE Moodle Course should look like and suggests essential elements that all Moodle course designers should consider to use or add.

(info) This page is updated and/or added to regularly, e.g. when new accessibility tools are rolled out.

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3.2 Use the right tool for the right purpose: Forums, Zoom, echo, teams, oneNote

  • Use learning Forum(s) for structured, asynchronous discussion activities

    • establish teacher presence by contributing and commenting regularly

  • Use Zoom for synchronous meetings, lectures, workshops and one-to-one sessions

  • Record Zoom lectures and seminars into the cloud so that students can catch up or watch again to clarify their understanding.

    • Into the cloud means it gets automatically added to Echo (Zoom cannot be used as a long-term storage solution)

    • Link to the recording from Moodle via the correct Echo360 activity tool. We have a collection of quick how to guides for Echo360 use.

    • Do not link to the URL you see in your echo account, it is not accessible to students.

  • Consider using Hot questions: this Moodle feature allows students to flag up,what they haven’t understood in lectures or classes, or what they want a revision class to focus on, or give answers to questions from the teacher.

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6.4 Using Turnitin

We strongly recommend that you allow students to use Turnitin to check their citing and referencing. Turnitin works best if it is used as a learning tool to check for omissions or mistakes - much like a spell checker. This will help students form an understanding of how to reference properly, and the importance of academic integrity.

If used only for administrative purposes (and without allowing students at the very least to see the reports when they are generated), TurnItIn is merely a tool to catch students out, and such use implicitly presumes guilt as opposed to affording the benefit of doubt.

We have a suite of guidance on Turnitin on this Wiki.

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Turnitin is best used as a tool for learning the importance of academic integrity. Given to students as a checking tool it can help students learn how to cite and reference correctly.

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