OK, the Moodle folks have given me some tricks that may make Moodle a little more tolerable. Maybe you know these, but…
In your “profile” there are a bunch of useful settings. A few that I cannot bleieve are not the defaults:
- You can have Moodle “highlight new posts for me” (under Forum tracking). This way, on the main page you can see which forums have new posts, without opening each one.
- You can have Moodle send you email updates daily as a digest, rather than every time there’s a post, or …
- Unfortunately, it is looking like Moodle’s Forums aren’t as easy for grading as I had hoped. So, we might change how we do reading assignments in the future.
Thanks for bearing with me as I figure this out.
