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
If you are on an up to date version of Windows 10, you should have access to the new replacement for the venerable Microsoft Pain app – Paint 3D. The new application can create 3d graphics and is also super useful as a basic image manipulation tool. Not a Windows person? See my earlier post…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: An Easy Way Resize & Crop Images in Windows 10
With the Kaltura integration into Moodle, it’s easy for students to create and upload their own videos. These could be used to record presentations or screencast videos, to add video comments or VLOGs (video blogs), to conduct interviews, etc. You can either provide a forum for students to post videos to, or create a Media Assignment if…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Get Your Students Creating Videos