Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Goal setting and motivation

This is a good moment to talk about how the calendar can be used to set goals and to motivate your team members. Using the calendar for the milestones and to specify an individual team member's tasks will help you keep everyone on task. It is useful for tracking progress and asking for help when one person slips behind and misses deadlines.

Be sure to recognize and reward the timely completion of tasks. You can set the calendar to reflect key timeline dates, and you can build in a space to insert emoticons or other encouraging icons.

Badges can also be used to motivate students. For example, one can develop a badge to be awarded at the completion of key milestones. To do so, go to Site administration. Select ...