Hi Janet,
Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful and honest reflection.
You have described your learning journey beautifully. It is wonderful to see how you moved from having limited hands-on experience with Moodle to creating your own course, “Academic Writing and Speaking Skills,” with clear goals for first-year undergraduate students. Your focus on writing, speaking, communication, critical thinking, discussions, presentations, quizzes, peer feedback, and reflection shows that you are thinking carefully about both course design and learner engagement.
I also appreciate the way you explored different AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Canva Course, and Coursebox. Using these tools to organize modules, generate ideas, structure outcomes, and think creatively about online learning is exactly the kind of exploration that helps teachers grow in confidence and skill.
Your challenges with Moodle settings, weekly sections, resources, badges, certificates, course completion, and AI-generated images are very understandable. Moodle can feel overwhelming at first, especially when everything is new. What matters is that you did not give up. You continued practicing, asking questions, reflecting, and improving your course step by step.
I am so glad that the support and feedback helped you continue. You should feel proud of your progress. You have shown patience, adaptability, persistence, and reflective thinking. These are very important qualities for online course development.
You should be very proud of your accomplishments in the course. Human interaction is key to learning. Thank you for your kind words.