Chapter 6. Managing Student Work

I think you'll agree that we've come a long way in the first half of this book. We've got all of our documents, handouts, videos, and sound files uploaded. In the previous chapter, we investigated lots of ways we can make our courses more engaging and entertaining for students. Have you checked out the free Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion sample chapter download on the Packt Publishing website? This sample chapter looks very briefly at how students can hand in their work through Moodle. In this chapter we expand on that theme to learn how to fully manage online work that students need to hand in to me.

Currently, in my Backyard Ballistics course, I set two major end-of-course projects:

• A poster on energy sources

• A PowerPoint presentation to the group on how energy is transferred when objects are sent flying through the air

Both tasks are graded separately.

There are a number of headaches associated with assignment submissions: files (such as PowerPoint presentations...