Role: Tutor |
Time: 5 minutes |
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Forums are an excellent way of providing a more informal reflective log, and they are arguably a more usable alternative to the Assignment activity because each entry has its own timestamp, and it has support for file attachments. However, individual forums cannot be formally submitted by the apprentice and cannot be closed once complete. They instead provide a journal that is "always open".
To set up a reflective log using individual forums, perform the following steps:
On your course page, click on Course administration | Users | Groups, and then click on the Auto-create groups button.
On the Auto-create groups page, set Specify to Members of Group and then set Group/member count to 1. This will set up a group for every individual apprentice, and we can then set up the Forum activity for Separate groups so that each apprentice sees their own personal forum posts and not anyone else's.
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