Student Workshops
I started running the student workshops this morning – once again to fairly mixed results. The first one was due to start at 10am, but when I arrived at the room at 9:30 I found that someone had removed most of the network cables and changed many of the proxy settings, meaning that the machines couldn’t access the site (the network cables are quite critical!).
After running around finding replacement cables and getting them all plugged back in, I found that the DHCP on the network has stopped working (for some reason or other), so I had to manually set the IP addresses of each machine in order that they could access the website.
Finally got to 10am and only 1 student turned up, out of the 20 who had signed up. So he had a 1-1 training session on Moodle! Apparently the others might not have realised that the training started today – despite the fact they had selected which session to come to and I had posted the attendence sheet up on the noticeboard.
The session at 11:30am was a little better, about 7 students came (more than the 4 who had signed for this session), and by that time I also had more of the PCs connected up.
On a positive note, quite a few students have started to use the site already. Many becuase two of the courses are now requiring students to submit their assignments using the Moodle assignment module. So this is really great, and hopefully they’ll continue to use the site.
