Year: 2016

A Case for Annotation

Many faculty look for ways to get students to read assignment requirements more carefully and take opportunities to revise seriously. This article from Faculty Focus provides four straightforward strategies for getting college students to use annotation of their own work to show differences among drafts, links to assignment requirements, promote a growth mindset (practice can make perfect,…Continue Reading A Case for Annotation

UP Tech Tip: Drag and Drop Browser tabs

#UPtechtips is back after a brief break while I did some international travel. But we’re back with a good, simple, and very useful tip for re-arranging the tabs and windows in your web browser of choice! UP Tech Tip: Drag and Drop Tabs and Windows https://uportland.mediaspace.kaltura.com/id/0_8iopwcml?width=705&height=443&playerId=28073962…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Drag and Drop Browser tabs

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

Making Group Work Work

students working collaboratively in a group. They are sitting around a table using laptops

As the term unfolds, many professors will be asking students to work productively in groups. While there’s lots of evidence to support collaborative learning, both in terms of knowledge gained and essential work skills honed, many professors are also faced with groups that don’t gel or fall under the dominion of one hyper-achiever, and the occasional…Continue Reading Making Group Work Work