The great experiment of remote teaching and learning may be starting to fade into our collective rearview mirrors, but many of the tech tools that you spent countless hours learning and deploying are still useful as we head back to in-person classes this week. For instance, many of the tools you leveraged last year to…
Category: Moodle
Hypothesis Workshop Wednesday
Our first workshop will take place on Wednesday both in-person and online. We will be demonstrating and using Hypothesis, a tool to make reading active, visible, and social within Moodle. Hypothesis brings discussion directly to your assigned readings by enabling students to add comments and start conversations in the margins. In this workshop, we will discuss…
Moodle update for Fall 2021
It is still officially Summer, but Information Services has been busy getting ready for the fall semester! One of our recently completed projects is an upgrade of Moodle from version 3.8 to 3.10. This is a minor upgrade so you shouldn’t have any trouble making the transition, but you’ll find a few things of note…
Midsemester Feedback – Reprise
This post was written and published by Kate Bengtston in 2019. After attending a CTL workshop on student feedback earlier this week, I thought it was time to republish as it is all still relevant for in-person and remote classes, modules and full semester courses. Enjoy! Midterm season is upon us! The half-way point of…
Summer Instructional Technology Workshops
In an effort to support faculty preparing to teach this fall – whatever it brings – we will be offering workshops throughout the summer. All workshops will be online, so you can join from anywhere you like! We brainstormed topics, particularly more interesting tools to support student learning and engagement than we were able to…
Recap: Better Student Feedback with Technology
This past week, we took a look at several different technology tools that can help you provide students with feedback that is more frequent and specific – without an overwhelming amount of extra work for you. If you missed our workshop and want to learn more, read on for a quick recap! You can also…
Tools for Midterm Feedback
Midterm season is upon us! The half-way point of the semester is an excellent time to reflect on what has transpired over the last 8 weeks and how to approach the rest of the semester. A mid-term evaluation will allow your students to give you valuable feedback about their experience so far in your course….
Workshop Tuesday 9/17: Google Assignments in Moodle
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…
Learning Student Names: the Moodle Roster
It’s the first week of school and one of your first tasks as an instructor is to figure out a way to learn all those new students’ names. While there are lots of tricks for learning student names, one useful tool is built right into Moodle, the Roster report. Even if you’re not using Moodle…
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…
