The Moodle site for this course includes a forum called "Reading log." You are required to post to this forum before and after every class that includes the required reading.
Before every class that includes a required reading, you must submit a single post to the relevant topic in this forum. The post will consist of two discussion questions—questions you think it would be interesting for the class to discuss as a whole. The questions will generally be only one or two sentences long, but feel free to write longer questions if you want to.
The mechanics of submitting your post are easiest to explain using an example, so let us consider the second class in this course, which requires you to read an excerpt from chapter 3 of the book Software Engineering by Ian Somerville. Before that class, you need to click on the "Somerville discussion questions" link on the left of the reading log forum. Now click "Reply" in order to submit your post. Enter your two questions into the Message box on the next page. When you are ready, click the "Post to forum" button at the bottom of this page. If you're unhappy with your questions, Moodle allows you about 30 minutes to change them before they become frozen.
After every class that includes a required reading, you must submit answers to your own previously-posted discussion questions. These answers can be relatively brief (say, two or three sentences each). If at all possible, they should explicitly reference the class discussion by incorporating the ideas of your classmates. If we didn't have time to discuss one of your questions, give your own answer to the best of your ability.
The mechanics of submitting your answers will again be explained by using the second class of the course as an example. First, click on the relevant topic link on the left of the reading log forum page; in this case the topic is "Somerville discussion questions." Locate the post in which you submitted your questions. Click on the "Reply" link to this post. Type your answers into the resulting Message box. When you are satisfied with your answers, click the "Post to forum" button at the bottom of this page. As with the original post, Moodle will give you about 30 minutes to make alterations.
Answers to discussion questions must be posted within 24 hours of the end of class.