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
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
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
For our last #UPTechTip of September 2o17, we are wrapping up our look at brand new Moodle tips and tricks with the new Moodle Recycle Bin feature! If you’ve ever had the fun feeling of realizing that you just accidentally deleted a Resource or Activity in Moodle that you meant to keep, this one is…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Moodle Recycle Bin Saves the Day?!
Continuing our exploration of new functionality and features gained in our annual Fall Moodle update, today’s #UPTechTip shows how to allow multiple due dates for Assignment activities via the use of Overrides. Previously, instructors had no easy way to specify staggered dates and often created multiple copies of Assignment activities with differing due dates instead –…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Set Multiple Due Dates for Moodle Assignments