A common question I get from instructors is “How can I make sure that grades for my assignments are not released to students until I’m ready?” Up until recently, there hasn’t been a great way to control this, but a new Moodle feature allows you to do just that – go through grading at your…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Control When Moodle Assignment Grades Are Released With Workflow
Do you keep office hours or offer drop-in appointments for your students? Maybe you do advising and want avoid long back and forth email threads trying to find an amenable time for sessions? Do you sometimes have a line out the door, and other times wait around only for no one to show up? Or do…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Turn Your Moodle into a You Can Book Me
The newest Moodle update at UP has a few nifty tricks. One of the best is the ability for instructors to specify what types of students are allowed to turn in to a Moodle assignment. Want to make sure students give you a Word doc so you can use Track Changes? Make it so. Or…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Set Accepted File Types in Moodle Assignments
Hello, and welcome to the first #UPTechTip Friday of Fall 2018! I hope your new academic year is off to a great start. You’ve probably noticed that Moodle has a fresh new look for Fall. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to take a few minutes to get acquainted with the new…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Get to Know the New Moodle
I’ve written before about Office Forms, a lightweight survey tool that’s bundled into Office 365, and about Teams, the chat-based collaboration space. I want to quickly highlight how the two tools can be used together to facilitate a truly collaborative survey-building and data analysis process. https://uportland.mediaspace.kaltura.com/id/0_veuwhv9i?width=705&height=443&playerId=28073962 To start off with, visit the Team and Channel…Continue Reading Collaboratively Collect & Analyze Data with MS Forms + Teams
Working with academic technology on the UP campus, I spend a lot of time immersed in both Office 365 and in accessibility issues around our use of technology and digital media. Office is at the core of our digital 21st-century teaching and learning – nearly everyone on campus depends on it to communicate, research, write,…Continue Reading Accessibility Tools in Office 365