Choose your activities

Table of contents

1. The Activity picker [edit]

2. Adding a Scheduler activity [edit]

2.1. Creating a Scheduler activity

3. Creating interactive activities with H5P [edit]

4. Adding a Workshop Activity [edit]

5. Database tool in QMplus [edit]

6. Creating a Glossary [edit]

7. Useful Resources [edit]

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The Activity picker [edit]

To access the activity picker:

Turn Edit mode on

At the bottom of each section the Add an activity or resource button will be visible.

An image of the add an activity or resource button

This will open the Activity picker

An image of the activity picker

Click the desired activity to add it to your course.

Adding a Scheduler activity [edit]

The scheduler activity icon

The Scheduler activity will allow you to schedule appointments with your students. As a teacher you can specify time slots for meetings, which students can choose on QMplus and also schedule specific appointments for students. You can also record the outcome of the meeting - and optionally grade the meeting - within scheduler.

Group scheduling is also supported in scheduler which makes it possible to schedule appointments for entire groups at the same time.

Creating a Scheduler activity

Using the Checklist activity to keep students on track

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A checklist allows a teacher to create a list of items that their students can work through and tick off as they have completed them. It provides teachers with an overview of the progress their students have made and the number of activities they have completed.

Using the Checklist to keep students on track

Creating interactive activities with H5P [edit]

H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package. It teachers to create content such as interactive videos, quizzes and presentations.

More information about the H5P activity and how you could use it.

Adding a Workshop Activity [edit]

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Workshop is a peer assessment activity. Students submit their work, this is then distributed among their peers so they can mark it based on a grading scale specified by the teacher.

More information about the Workshop activity and how you could use it.

Database tool in QMplus [edit]

an image of the database icon

The Database activity in QMplus is a very flexible tool. It can be used by staff to organise and display information such as lists of project topics or it can be configured to allow students to collaborate to create a shared resource, such as book reviews or useful study resources.

A database can contain a variety of different information including, text, images, files, geo location information and web addresses. You can customise how the information in the database is displayed including forms for entering information into the database and how existing entries are displayed.

It is also possible to allow commenting and rating of database entries which means that the database can be used as an assessed activity.

Although the database is a very flexible tool, there are two things that are worth noting:

Although called a Database activity, this will not provide you with any sophisticated relational database functionality, it is a simple flat database. You cannot define database queries.
It is possible to customise the look and fe,el of the database in a variety of ways. This does require knowledge of writing HTML.

Using the Database activity

Creating a Glossary [edit]

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A QMplus glossary allows tutors (and potentially, students) to create and maintain a list of key words and definitions. This user guide also demonstrates how the ‘Random glossary entry Block’ can be used in partnership with the glossary to create greater awareness of the glossary’s content. An example is a ‘Word of the day’.

Using the Glossary

Useful Resources [edit]

Scheduler module (sub page)
Checklist activity (sub page)
H5P (Moodle docs)
Workshop activity (Moodle docs)
Database activity(sub page)
Glossary activity (sub page)