Forums | E-Learning Practitioners

20 September 2014, 0:27

Would it be possible for students to be notified automatically when course content has been added or changed, please? It would prevent us distance learners from adding to the workload of lecturers and administrative staff by asking when lectures, notes, files, etc., are available and might make it clear if there is a problem when something hasn't been added due to an oversight.

I do appreciate that it would add to the QMPlus programmers' workload and am sorry for that but these are considerable problems for distance learning students. This would make our lives far less stressful.

20 September 2014, 10:42

There is already a Recent Activity tab in the DASHBOARD block on the landing page, which might help, although I think this would be a lot more useful if it identified the page to which each entry relates. You could also ask your module organisers to add a Recent Activity block to their module pages.

Francis

23 September 2014, 16:45

Thankyou - I don't seem to be able to see the Recent Activity tab (nor to set a landing page, so I have requested a check of my access in case this is the problem).

30 September 2014, 11:49

Please might you explain how this is done? I would be very grateful and could pass it on to them.

01 October 2014, 1:43

The QMPlus wranglers for our course created a recent activity block yesterday.  Francis, thankyou so much for the suggestion which I did pass on to them, I admit. It is just what I need. I am sure others on my course will find it equally useful.