Wimba

We have quite a few students using Wimba classroom to do assessed class presentations. We have setup drop in rooms where they are presenters so they can practise their presentations or work with their team to develop their presentations. They can load their PowerPoint slides to practise ... BUT THE SLIDES ARE LEFT IN TEH ROOM WHEN THEY LEAVE AND GIVEN THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS FOR ASSESSMENT, THIS IS NOT SATISFACTORY.

One way to get around this would be for Wimba Classroom to use the Moodle Groups facility so a Wimba room could be setup in Group mode so each group would have their own room.

Another way woudl be to allow presenters to delete PowerPoint slides on the fly using the Wimba Clasroom presentat interface in moodle (and not the Wimba management interface). Wimba Classroom allows presenters to add slides on the fly ... why not also allow people to delete them on the fly

I look forward to your replying to me re this enhancement to the Wimba / Moodle integration.

Peter Evans

Dr Peter Evans
07 46315583 (w)
peter.evans@usq.edu.au
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/evansp/
(Skype ID = “evans-pj")
USQ Technology Advocate

Hello all (including the Wimba moderators),

As mentioned earlier we have many Moodle web based courses where a major piece of assessment is a group student presentation presented ot the course using Wimba. To prepare for this the groups of students use a Wimba room where they are presenters. This works very well as they can load their presentaitons on the fly and work on them or practise their group delivery.  The thing that does NOT work well is that they can’t delete their presentation and given that this is used for assessment they are not keen for other groups to see their presentation. See the student’s request at the end of this message.

I would REALLY appreiciate a reply from the Wimba moderators on when this might be included or ways of working around this problem. I would also appreciate it if other Wimba users could vote on this issue so Wimba can see the importance of it.

Peter Evans

Dr Peter Evans
07 46315583 (w)
peter.evans@usq.edu.au
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/evansp/
(Skype ID = “evans-pj")
USQ Technology Advocate

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Removing powerpoint file
Hi Peter,

My group for <snipped for privacy> have been using the student lead study group room to compile our latest assignment.

Tonight I want to upload a powerpoint so we can discuss what needs to be done on it. I know how to do that but was wondering if it is possible to remove the file from the wimba room once we are done so it doesn’t remain there when other groups use the room. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance
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