Today’s #uptechtip, courtesy of the amazing One Minute CPD blog, illustrates how to easily add a glossary feature to your Moodle course. The glossary tool is: easy to set-up can allow students to add moderated or un-moderated entries can auto-link the word or phrase from anywhere in the course to the definition UP Tech…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create a Collaborative Glossary in Moodle
UP Tech Tip: Introducing Sway (New in Office 365 2/2)
This week in #uptechtips I want to focus on a few new tools available to UP faculty through Office 365. The theme you will find with these tools is that they are easy, simple and designed to work online and on mobile devices. This week we are talking about Sway. You will find this tool…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Introducing Sway (New in Office 365 2/2)
UP Tech Tip: Introducing Office Forms (New to Office 365 1/2)
This week in #uptechtips I want to focus on a few new tools available to UP faculty through Office 365. The theme you will find with these tools is that they are easy, simple and designed to work online and on mobile devices. First up is Forms. You will find this tool by logging in…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Introducing Office Forms (New to Office 365 1/2)
UP Tech Tip: How to Use OneNote
This week I’m bringing in a video from Microsoft trainer Doug. He has a great new video sharing how to uses OneNote to organize his professional (and personal) life. OneNote has been an incredibly valuable tool for me; I’ve seen other folks in Information Services using it and I’ve noticed it becoming more popular around…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: How to Use OneNote
UP Tech Tip: New TurnItIn Studio
Welcome back to the first #UPTechTip for Fall 2016! Today I want to highlight the new and improved TurnItIn interface for providing feedback on student work. Using this tool for feedback lets you keep a check on plagiarism (or just sloppy citing or paraphrasing), leave text or audio comments in context for students, or set…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: New TurnItIn Studio
On Designing Online Assessment
Moving assessments online has many potential benefits. For one, you can free up class time for more group or active learning activities. Out of class, LMS-based quizzing eliminates the chore of manually grading objective multiple choice, true or false, or match questions. (This last one alone is enough to pique the interest of many instructors.) Some faculty, however, are concerned that,…Continue Reading On Designing Online Assessment