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Teachers: do you have your students working collaboratively, either in groups or as a whole class, as part of their learning? Moodle LMS has some very useful standard features to achieve this, from reflective discussions in Forums, resource sharing in Databases, to peer assessment in Workshops or project design in Wikis.

Today, we’re really happy to introduce a new Moodle plugin that we’re sure will soon become a favourite to foster learner collaboration: Board, a virtual collaboration activity. This plugin allows course participants to collaborate by adding ‘notes’ to a column on a board. Board is both functional and attractive, and as it was developed by Brickfield Education Labs, one of our Certified Integrations, you can be sure the plugin will be well maintained and accessible. Let’s take a look!

How is it set up?

After having the Board plugin installed, our teacher can go to Moodle’s Activity chooser and select the Board activity.

The new Board activity can be…