Leveraging

Leveraging is a process whereby a paper-based material is adapted for tech-based learning.  In my college we use a Moodle-based VLE, so I thought I’d see what I could so with the worksheet I created.

First I tried to create a ‘book’.  It wasn’t very useful other than to display the materials at which point it would be the same as simply uploading a PDF of the file.

The ‘Page’ function didn’t work out much better.  It only really allowed me to rebuild the worksheet which would make it ‘easier’ to update in the future.  I’d say this isn’t really easier than updating the original file and re-uploading.

The ‘lesson’ activity is probably the best option here.  You can set up the page just as you would in a Word document (this is quite time consuming if you’re leveraging).  The best part of this is that you can add different question types along with answers for students to see and compare to their own.

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In the end it looks pretty similar to the worksheet I made in Word.  Not bad, but a bit tricky at first and a little ‘clunky’.

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