Monitoring student participation in a forum
One of the most important tasks that you face when managing a forum is determining which students are participating and which are not. Moodle gives you several ways to get this information.
Determining who has posted to a forum
Moodle's log files can tell you who has participated in an activity. We will look at how useful log files are in determining which students have posted to a forum.
In order to view the list of students who have posted to a forum, follow these steps:
- Enter the course for which you want the report.
- From the Administration block, select Reports.
- Under Choose which logs to see, select the settings for the following:
- Course: This will be set to the course you are in, but you can choose a different course.
- Participants: Leave this set to All participants so that you see the log for all students in the course.
- Dates: To see who has ever posted to a forum, leave this set to All days.
- Activity: In this case,...
