{"id":760,"date":"2012-07-11T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:34:04","slug":"nothing-to-hand-in-use-moodle%e2%80%99s-offline-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/07\/11\/nothing-to-hand-in-use-moodle%e2%80%99s-offline-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to hand in? Use Moodle\u2019s Offline activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kharied\/3508091405\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2146\" title=\"An image of a person throwing paper\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/07\/throwingpaper.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a person throwing paper\" width=\"294\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>There are many ways to evaluate students \u2013 and not all of them involve submiting an assignment. Activities like in-class group presentations don\u2019t require students to submit anything. For those type of assignments, Moodle\u2019s Offline\u00a0activity\u00a0allows you to add items to your gradebook without requiring the students to hand in anything.<\/p>\n<h2>A tool for communicating the details<\/h2>\n<p>The Offline activity allows you to post activity requirements, expectations, and a due date while also leaving an entry in the gradebook for the grade. Other ideas for this tool are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in-class presentations<\/li>\n<li>an interview in the local community<\/li>\n<li>posting homework to be completed and physically turn in at the next class session<\/li>\n<li>gathering outside resources (i.e. pictures or video)<\/li>\n<li>non-graded work completed outside of class (i.e. attending a cultural event)<\/li>\n<li>class participation<\/li>\n<li>contributions to a project\/document living outside of Moodle (i.e. blog, wiki, group presentation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Grading Offline activities<\/h2>\n<p>Grading works normally, and students will get notification of their grades once you enter them manually.<\/p>\n<h2>Adding an Offline activity<\/h2>\n<p>The offline activity is an option you can select in the assignment area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/07\/offlineactivity.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2141\" title=\"Offline Activity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/07\/offlineactivity.png\" alt=\"Offline Activity\" width=\"394\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Moodle Assignment details\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/19\/en\/Adding\/editing_an_assignment\">Read more about Moodle\u2019s assignments types.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flickr user kharied\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kharied\/3508091405\/\">Image by Flickr user kharied<\/a> \/<a title=\"Creative Commons license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\"> Creative Commons licensed BY-NC-NC 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to evaluate students &#8211; and not all of them involve submiting an assignment. Activities like in-class group presentations don&#8217;t require students to submit anything. For those type of assignments, Moodle&#8217;s Offline\u00a0activity\u00a0allows you to add items to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/07\/11\/nothing-to-hand-in-use-moodle%e2%80%99s-offline-activity\/\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16008,21426,19535,27360,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment","category-moodle","category-moodle-musings","category-offline","category-teaching-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}