Forums require moderation which is time consuming and some staff felt that there is a general misunderstanding that putting materials online is all that’s required and that the other aspects e.g. checking links, updating materials, supporting and responding to students are not considered an overhead.
Students are unable to upload to Moodle unless they get admin status (solution might be to use an ePortfolio system). Some staff felt it would be good to be enable students to do this to encourage a feeling of ownership of the site rather that using it as reader only.
Students emailing assessments can be problematic as the lecturer then has to print them out for marking. Although accepted for a deadline students, in some courses students are asked to provide hard copy too and some students have expressed a desire to receive paper based materials. In this instant using the learning platform is perceived to be counter productive.
Equations are not handled well in terms of being able to create self assessed tests that have equations as answers.
