Join us on Tuesday, September 17 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm in the Advanced Technology Lab for Google Assignments in Moodle. Google Assignments (formerly Course Kit) is a plugin for Moodle that facilitates assignment submission using Google Drive. Google Assignments integrates into Moodle to allow students to submit assignments and instructors to provide feedback using the…
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Moodle (and more!) Drop-in
Monday, August 26 | 1:00-3:00pm | Advanced Technology Lab, Shain Library Are you ready for the new academic year? Need assistance setting up your gradebook? Quizzes? Class blog? Booking computer labs? Members of the Instructional Technology staff – including our new Instructional Technology Specialist! – will be available to answer questions on Moodle, WordPress, Computer…
Introducing Google Course Kit
Students have long been taking advantage of the college’s access to Google Drive for completing course work. Assignments completed in Google Drive, however, could not be easily submitted as assignments…until now. Google has introduced a new plug-in for Moodle that streamlines the submission of student assignments completed using Google Drive. The plug-in allows students to…
Google Course Kit: Workshop Tomorrow!
Do you use Moodle? Do your students use (or want to use) Google Drive for coursework? Google has recently introduced Course Kit, a plugin for Moodle that facilitates assignment submission using Google Drive. Course Kit seamlessly integrates into Moodle allowing students to submit assignments in Drive, and allowing instructors to provide feedback using Google Drive…
Handy Time-Saving Tips for Gmail and Google Calendar
I attended Monday’s Talking Teaching on “Office Hours and Email: Connecting with Students Outside of Class.” We mentioned two time-saving tools that faculty might find useful in managing their calendars and email: calendar appointment slots and email canned responses. Below are instructions for using both, pulled from our archives. Appointment Slots in the Google Calendar…
Moodle OR Google?
In this post I would like to build on Ariella Rotramel’s and Anthony Graesh’s posts on course management systems and describe how I use Google Sites to deliver content and manage students’ assignments. What is Google Sites? Google Sites is the website building application in the G Suite productivity suite. The application allows you to…
Appointment Slots in the New Google Calendar
With advising week fast approaching we’ve been getting questions about using appointment slots in the new Google Calendar. It still works in the same way that we outlined in our original post, but finding the link to share with your students is different. Here are instructions. 1. Begin to create an event on your calendar,…
A Handy Trick for Duplicating Google Docs
Faculty often create assignments in which students are asked to complete a worksheet or template. When using Google Docs for this, a common practice is to either make multiple copies of the template and share the copies with individual students , or to give students access to the original document so the students can make…
Snow day planning…
Due to demand, we are re-publishing this post from earlier in the year! Did you miss the weatherproofing workshop last week? We focused on three types of activities you can do with your students if you are unable to attend class. Here are just a few ideas we shared. If you want more information or…
Weatherproofing Workshop Recap
*This post was scheduled for later in the day, but we are publishing it now due to the weather! Did you miss the weatherproofing workshop last week? We focused on three types of activities you can do with your students if you are unable to attend class. Here are just a few ideas we shared….
