On this page, you will find out how you can use OPAL course elements such as the profile, wiki and forum to specifically promote collaboration and exchange between your students. You will receive suggestions on how peer review procedures can be used for mutual feedback in assignments, thus increasing the quality of student work. You will also learn about a set of cards for digital familiarisation, team-building and trust methods that will make your online courses more interactive and lively.
Get to know us
In the OPAL course element profile course participants can introduce themselves to each other. The profile can be customised by the course author with any number of freely definable text input fields and thus individualised(see source 1).
Working in groups
With the learning resource wiki learning resource makes it easy to create articles and content and edit them together with other users.(see source 1) Wikis can be used for collaboration in groups, for example. This makes it possible for students to collate materials or discuss partial results. You can find out how to create wikis in OPAL and integrate them into a course in the OPAL user manual.
Discuss in a specialised manner
The OPAL course element Forum allows the author to integrate a forum into a course. In this forum, course participants can exchange information with each other and address questions to the course organisers and supervisors(see source 1).
Students can, for example, hold subject-related discussions in a forum for practice or assessment purposes.
Rate each other
A peer review - which can be accessed via the OPAL course element Assignment - enables anonymous assessment of submitted assignments by other students or participants. An overall assessment for the submitted assignment is created from the assessments(see source 1).
Methods for digital interaction
Interaction at digital events is different to face-to-face events! The Digital Trust Cards and Take-A-Break Cards method set collects methods for digital familiarisation, team building and trust building in online meetings, events and workshops.
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You can download the card set from the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung website :
