Using Moodle

Dialogues

The dialogue tool is a private communication channel between two people in your class. You can set up dialogues to allow student-to-teacher communication or student-to-student communication. Each dialogue you create can host a number of different conversations. You may only need to create one dialogue for the entire class, depending on how you want to use them.

Creating Dialogues

To create a dialogue:

1. Click Turn Editing Mode On.

2. Select Dialogue from the Activity menu.

3. The Introduction text entered in the dialogue-creation screen shown in Figure 4-12 will be displayed when anyone enters the dialogue.

   

   Figure 4-12. Dialogue creation screen

4. Set the dialogue options:

   Delete Closed Dialogues after (Days)

   You can close dialogues after they are finished. After they’ve been closed, the participants can see the transcripts until they are deleted.

   Type of Dialogue

   This setting selects whether the dialogues should be teacher-to-student or student-to-student.

   Allow more than on Dialogue with the same person

   This setting determines whether you can have more than once conversation with a given person within a dialogue tool.

   Mail Default

   This setting selects whether mail notifications of dialogue postings should be mailed to the participants.

5. Click Save Changes.

Once you’ve set up the dialogue, you and your students can begin communicating using the dialogue.

Using Dialogues

Once you’ve set up your dialogue, ...