The Board module for Moodle is a plugin that enables a post-it/sticky note board activity for students. This is a collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with optional names and then students add contributions to a column. Students do not see who has posted what.
Students can do the following:
The teacher can set up the activity with the following options:
On the board, a teacher can:
Initial funding for this plugin was provided by the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University under the SATLE fund from the National Forum. Subsequent funding has been received from Athlone Institute of Technology under the SATLE fund from the National Forum, and also from UCL.
One of the key things about Board is that it has two main approaches for now- whole class and group mode. Later there will also be a Board per user mode.
When separated groups are set up, the board becomes a private collaboration space for groups for their assignments, or for breakout groups in virtual classrooms. One of the benefits of using it in the virtual classroom is the content remains after the virtual breakout room is gone.
This plugin has been developed to work on Moodle releases 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.