1.3.5 Scenarios

4. Scenario 3

This happened in a Forum.

Topic 4 of the online course you are teaching is all about convective storms. You set up an activity asking the students to analyse a case study, which is provided as a .pdf File to be downloaded, and to identify the weather features that are most related to Topic 4. They are supposed to identify and discuss these features in the Forum. When checking the Forum you observe that none of the students mention the most relevant features you were hoping them to find and discuss. Adding to that, as students reply to each other forums’ posts, they are discussing a lot more about one single feature that is not so important to Topic 4. Ann, one of the students, contacts you via email saying she is very frustrated because she cannot understand the reasons that single feature is so important.

What would be your actions in this situation? What Moodle tools can help you to solve it?