Category: UP Tech Tips

The Moodle Quiz activity can be very useful for creating everything from ungraded self-checks to weekly reading quizzes, to exams. However, sometimes the actual process of creating questions in Moodle can be a bit clunky and time-consuming. Did you know that you can write up quizzes in Word or in a plain text document and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create Moodle Quiz Questions the Easy Way

Have you ever seen those cool animated images on the internet and wondered if you could create one yourself? Well, wonder no more! At UP, we are fortunate to have access to Snagit, which is a great application for capturing, marking up and working with images from our computer screens. There are lots and lots of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create Animated Gifs With Snagit

I’m taking on some new challenges in life and at work and have decided to scale back #UPtechtips (slightly) from twice a week to once a week – new publishing day of the week will be every Thursday during the academic year. I have some fun ideas for tips and incorporating some more video elements…Continue Reading #UPtechtips Update

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

#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