You may already know that Kaltura Video Resources can be added to your Moodle page to share videos that you have created and uploaded yourself or are available through the library’s Shared Repository. But did you know that you can also use Kaltura to share Youtube content? Most commonly, Youtube content is shared in a…
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The Students Have Spoken: Data-Based High Impact Moodle Practices for Your New Year (Part II)
Based on our recent student survey data, the Curricular Technology team has created a list of six low-lift practices you can implement at the start of the new semester that will enhance your students’ experience with Moodle. What We Recommend: Make Your Site Visible Digital learning spaces such as Moodle are extensions of your physical…
The Students Have Spoken: Data-Based High Impact Moodle Practices for Your New Year (Part I)
We have entered another new year and are standing at the brink of another new spring semester! Perhaps there is, hidden amidst our resolutions for 2024, a goal or two pertaining to teaching and learning at Connecticut College. Ramping up your Moodle page might even be on this list of excellent aspirations. It is in…
Talking Teaching: Moodle/Google Recap!
Members of the Instructional Technology Team participated as discussants in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s most recent Talking Teaching event. We met with an enthusiastic group of faculty to discuss Moodle and Google tips and tricks that can make the semester easier for instructors and students. In order to continue the discussion, we thought we’d…
Happy Holidays!
The Research Support and Curricular Technology Team wishes you a happy and restful winter break! If you have any end-of-semester questions, we will be available until the Holiday Luncheon on Wednesday, December 21. We’ll be back in the office on Wednesday, January 4 to prepare for the new semester. Please feel free to reach out…
Moodle Upgrade!
Information Services has upgraded Moodle to a newer version (3.11 for those who are keeping track). While you’ll find that most things look the same, there are a few changes that we think are worth noting. We have added a couple of new course formats to choose from, to change the visual appearance of your…
The Students Behind the Masks: Tech Tools for Meeting Your Students
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…
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…