To-do list planning

Educators can manage the activities of students and check off assignments from the
lists as soon as the students complete them using the Checklist plugin.

In order to make the to-do task lists for the students more flexible, teachers can make
some items on the lists optional and keep track of students’ progress through the task.
Students can leave notes to every checkpoint in the list, commenting them.

The educators manage individual student’s items by adding dates to the items or
exporting them to the calendar. The list with featured progress results can be furtherly
exported to the gradebooks.

Easy grading
The Grade Me plugin simplifies the teacher’s job by showing the assignments, essays,
and courseworks that have been already submitted but not yet graded. It is the best
option for organizing the work in the big groups where the workload can be quite messy.

In order to view the ungraded assignments, teachers should have the students
organized in one learning course group. If the teacher wants to view all ungraded
assignments from all courses the admin or the educator will have to set the block on the
front page. Otherwise, the block on the course page will only show the ungraded
assignments within the one course.

Diversifying grading methods

Another useful plugin for grading that also provides using the rubrics for the assignment
grading. Learning Analytics Enriched Rubric plugin is used to make the assignment
grading clear for the students and when the final grade includes various criteria
assessments.

How does rubric grading usually work? For instance, the overall score for the essay
grade consists of the essay grading rubrics such as the quality of the thesis, the
strength of the argument, the structural balance and the number of mistakes. Each
grading rubric has teacher-defined score levels (usually from 1 to 50), and as each part
is assessed according to the rubric levels, their sum makes up the overall grade.

The plugin includes a variety of options for the rubric grading. One of them titled
“enriched” features the ability to incorporate the course learning behavior, times of
accessing learning material, etc.

Managing the long courses

Long-winded courses often lead to the situations of so-called ‘Scroll of Death’, when the
topic list gets way too long. If you have courses that exceed the bar of twenty sections,
that is the solid sign Collapsed Topics plugin could be of a good use.
The toggle option is used to view the contents of each section of the course. Using
Collapsed Topics plugin, the teacher can have the instant view of the topic information
without the necessity of refreshing the pages when launching the course resources.

Measuring the engagement

Measuring the engagement and interest within the class is not one of the easiest things
to do. Using such plugin such as Question Trends, teachers or admins of the course can
get the understanding of how students interact with the material and how they approach
the learning process.

Gathering the data about student activities, the system will return it in the SCORM
reporting, featuring trends, patterns and other statistical analysis of studying. For
instance, this way teachers or admins can gather the information about the number of
attempts that the student used in order to pass the quiz or the number of correct
answers given to the question in the class.