The new year has arrived, and now is the perfect time to try out new tools and techniques in your course! If your new year’s resolution involved presenting dynamic, interactive course material or encouraging your students to experiment with a new technological tool, then read on to learn about how to utilize ThingLink to enrich…
Category: Tools
Announcing Spring 2020 Workshop Schedule
Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our spring 2020 Technologies for Teaching and Research workshop schedule. We are covering a wide range of topics, many of which came directly from faculty. Also included in this list are the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which includes several presentations by Connecticut College faculty and staff, and…
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….
Claim Your Domain on Digital Connecticut College and Create!
Join us on Thursday for Digital Connecticut College: Build Websites and Tools for Class Engagement. We’ll be in the Advanced Computer Lab from 9:00-10:00 am. Register or show up as your schedule allows. Coffee and breakfast treats will be served. Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to create a digital…
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…
Test Drive Our New Overhead Book Scanner
Scan print publications quickly and easily with the library’s new 400dpi overhead book scanner. OCR the text to make it accessible for students. Export mp3 files that read the text aloud. The cropping feature enables you to select, crop and export images or text with the swipe of a finger. The new scanner should make…
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…
Syllabus Inspiration
In addition to finding inspiration from our wonderful Connecticut College colleagues, there is a wealth of information online that you can draw from. If you’re looking for new ideas and inspiration for your courses, check the following sites. Contact an Instructional Technology team member to get help pulling it all together. Open Syllabus Explorer Explore…
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…
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…