What is Board?
The Board module for Moodle is a plugin that enables a post-it board activity for students. This is a collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with editable names and then students add contributions to a column. Students do not see who has posted what.
Board is a great alternative to Padlet or Jamboard.
On the board activity, students can:
- Add a new post with some of the following:
- A heading.
- Some text.
- Add a link.
- Upload an image.
- Embed a Youtube video.
- Edit or delete one of their posts.
- Add optional comments to posts.
They can also do the following depending on the settings of the teacher:
- Move their notes among columns.
- Rate, or star, someone else's post.
The teacher can set up the board activity with the following options:
- A closing date for submissions.
- How the posts are ordered in a column, by date or star count.
- Whether posts can be starred - by students, teachers, or neither.
- Standard Moodle group access settings.
On the board, a teacher can:
- Move any of the posts from one column to another.
- Download a copy of the board contents.
- Download a spreadsheet of submissions of the students.
- Download a spreadsheet of comments by the students.
Adding a Board to your course
- Using the Moodle Tool Picker, select Board from the options.
- Configure the board as desired
- Instructors can set a deadline for posts, and can specify how many posts a student must make to 'complete' the activity in Moodle.