4.1. Course Management: Interaction Planning

In face-to-face courses, students have an obvious method to interact with content: They can raise a hand to ask a question. One benefit to online courses is that they provide additional avenues for interaction with course content in meaningful ways. Content interaction includes providing opportunities for students to think critically about course materials, contribute to the discussion in multiple ways, and to check their understanding of the concepts.

Within Moodle, this can be accomplished in many activities. Consider these examples:

• A student watches a video that is broken up every three minutes with a brief check-your-understanding question (H5P Interactive Video).
• Students contribute to a class glossary by providing additional definitions, clarifications, or media.
• Students provide additional resources they’ve found that contributed to their understanding of a reading, lecture, or other content (for instance, by uploading video links to a discussion forum).