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- Never answer a question by email (unless it's personal) > reply is "post this to the forum" Why? Because 359 other students have the same question*
- Setup 5 types of forums forums
- Announcements from staff
- Admin Q&A - for general questions
- Topic specific fora (so staff and students can subscribe selectively - in large groups colleagues can distribute the workload of replying by subscribing to their
- specialism
- Social cafe > post links to interesting articles, videos etc.
- Wishlist forum? (is this anonymous?) > suggestion box
- Twitter > rapid repsonse response and comment in labs and in lectures - use Tweetdeck
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- add events to the calendar
- use the upcoming events block so students get reminders about due dates etc.
- add the recent activity block so students see new materials as it's posted
- add RSS feeds to relevant materials (e.g. news or magazine articles)
- put pictures on each page
- if you tweet add a Twitter widget to your Moodle course homepage* create a student contributed glossary of terms
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