Summary
Moodle offers several options for students to collaborate on building a body of knowledge. A class can work together to build a glossary, which can be imported and reused in future classes. They can work together to write a wiki, which provides an opportunity for them to organize their knowledge into a narrative.
Look at glossaries as a way for students to collect new knowledge, and look at wikis as a way for students to organize new knowledge. You may also look at wikis as ways to encourage students to develop projects that can be implemented after the class is over in real-life applications.
One way to ensure that you keep your students motivated and on track is to ensure that they stay engaged. Monitor these activities and encourage your students to participate.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to use Moodle to run a workshop. In it, we will cover workshops, group projects, combinations of group and individual projects, workshop strategies, and the four phases of a workshop...
