We have lots of great tech tools at UP that enhance teaching and learning. They really start to shine when they become integrated and work together, becoming two great tastes that taste great together, like peanut butter and chocolate. (Disclaimer: never put peanut butter and/or chocolate into your technology devices).
Imagine the following scenario: you’re relaxing at your beach cabin on the last weekend before the start of what’s sure to be a busy term (you have a beach cabin in this scenario, pretty cool, right?) You get an alert on your mobile phone: an email from a student asking a question that leads you to realize you’ve made an egregious error on the class syllabus you posted to Moodle. Worse, you know you put this same syllabus in 3 other sections of the same course.
The horror! You’re going to have to wait til Monday, find the original document on your work computer, go into each Moodle section, delete the current copy of the syllabus, and upload the corrected one.
If only you had saved your syllabus file to the cloud and added a link from your Moodle courses! All you would need to do is use the mobile phone you brought with you, open up the Word mobile app, make your correction once, and boom, you’re done! Want to find out how? Watch the video below:
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