Written by Phil Tubman – eLearning Development Officer, Digital Learning Team (ISS)
Each year in the Digital Learning Team, we try to improve the Moodle experience for students and staff. During this academic year we have held focus groups with students and listened to their concerns, which overwhelmingly speak of their difficulties finding thingson the Moodle course page:
“Chaotic sometimes, not always grouped together similar documents. Hard to find.”
“Every Moodle page has a different structure, making it difficult to learn how to navigate.”
Feedback given through Moodle is arguably the most important aspect of teaching and learning, so we have developed a new feature which collects all the students’ feedback (single course or all courses) onto one page, accessible from the Moodle course page – we are unsurprisingly calling this feature, “My Feedback”.
When a student clicks this link, they are taken to their My Feedback page which displays all their feedback from that course on one page, which has the following features:
- All feedback, grades in Moodle, submission dates and due dates on one page
- An area to make self-reflective notes (these are only visible to the student themselves)
- A button to download all their combined feedback files for the course (the annotated file, feedback comments, feedback criteria, rubric)
- note this does not include files that have been uploaded for feedback
To view all the feedback from all the courses, the student just clicks on their profile link at the top right of Moodle, and choose ‘Feedback’ from there:
Now all their feedback across Moodle is listed on one page:
We feel that this feature will be greatly beneficial to students during their academic tutor meetings, 1-1’s, or meetings with Learning Developers.
If you have teaching staff, course convenor, or administrative staff role on a Moodle course, you can also view as student’s My Feedback page (minus their self-reflective notes, of course), by choosing ‘My Feedback’ (under the ‘more’ option on the course front page), and selecting the student you wish to view:
For a preview of My Feedback, you can watch the video below:
Please comment below if you have any suggestions or thought about this new feature or pass your comments on to Phil via email.