The college is implementing and encouraging tutors to use moodle for electronic tutorial records, professional learning targets and allowing students to have the opportunity to document their interest, career aspirations and area where they could have a confidential area to self-evaluate or reflect on their own performance on the course and identifying if they require additional support from tutors. The left screen shot shows the report or progress of students completing their PDP on moodle.
Being a course tutor, it is my duty to ensure that
students' welfares are taken care of and especially their performance during the course of their studies. Moodle has come in really handy for me as a course tutor, to monitor students submission of work and tracking their progress throughout the whole course and other unit components that I don't deliver. The screen shot on the right displays an example of achieved targets from a randomly picked student from the Higher Diploma IT.
Moodle has made it convenient for both the students and the tutor to set specific targets, monitor the progress and sign off to mark that the relevant targets has been met, in order to obtain EMA bonus at the end of the term.
The screen shot on the left displays an example of a student reviewing their own progress with their tutor and a record of the tutorial discussion follows on what they have discussed and agreed.
Moodle has certainly helped tutors saves quite a lot of time tracking individuals' performance and progress by providing an online centralised tracking mechanism where other subject tutors could comment on. I personally find Moodle system easy to use and the only barrier as a full-time tutor with limited course management & tutorial time allocated would not allow much opportunities for me to further consider how I could utilise the tools available on moodle to enhance my lesson delivery and to further investigate how my students learn best online. By having the opportunities to sit and plan on how to use those to fit into the new curriculum delivery and set deadlines by awarding body. I think college or school should consider allocating specific or extra time for course tutors to explore and plan how these tools could be implemented.
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