Linking to collaboration platforms (Functionality booster)
Forums are interactive and often collaborative activities, and as such, they can encourage students to learn from each other. Sometimes, it is useful to have students collaborate on a single document. Students can collaborate in a shared document. In a Moodle Forum, having a collaborative document can encourage people to add content. It's not granularly peer-reviewed and assessed as in a Moodle Workshop, nor is it intended to be a wiki. It's simply to encourage engagement. It may seem complicated, but it's quite simple, especially if your school or organization uses Microsoft Office 365 products and OneDrive, or if students have a Google account that gives them access to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and more. They can also use other collaborative spaces, such as Dropbox. For more complex tasks, students may collaborate in a spreadsheet that has a timeline and critical path. Some organizations use project management...