The number of students with an extra-time accommodation for exams is on the rise – at the same time, many teachers are looking to move some or all of their assessments online. Today’s #uptechtip shows you how easy it is to add a user override to allow a student more time or extra attempts on…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Exam Accommodation for Moodle Quiz
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UP Tech Tip: Add Feedback to Moodle Grades
This week we look at how to add feedback along with a grade in the Moodle gradebook. Note that this workflow is best for standalone “grade items” that are created within the Moodle gradebook. If you are creating Moodle Assignment activities, there is a grading and feedback workflow built into the activity that you can…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Add Feedback to Moodle Grades
UP Tech Tip: Create a Collaborative Glossary in Moodle
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: 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
UP Tech Tip: Add Extra Credit to Moodle Gradebook
Today’s #UPTechTip provides a simple tutorial on how to add an extra credit grade item to the Moodle gradebook. It’s a simple task, but one that’s so important to get right! UP Tech Tip: Add Extra Credit to Moodle https://uportland.mediaspace.kaltura.com/id/0_jk15tawf?width=470&height=295&playerId=28073962…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Add Extra Credit to Moodle Gradebook