The power of peer educators to help your students practice We worked hard to become experts in our fields. We faculty work hard to plan and teach our classes. And now a pandemic has us working hard to continue and refine the shift to remote teaching. As professionals in teaching within higher education during trying…Continue Reading Practicing What You Teach
Do you have Moodle questions? Maybe you are new to UP and are coming from using a different LMS like Blackboard or Canvas. Perhaps you’ve been using Moodle for a while but want to leverage it more to create efficiencies or open up new opportunities. Or maybe you are brand new to the world of…Continue Reading Need a Moodle Question Answered?
Note: This piece was originally published on moodleuserguides.org Discussion forums are a mainstay of online and blended classes. Any learning technology that becomes ubiquitous is a fair target for critical interrogation (Death by PowerPoint comes to mind); discussion boards, too, have their fair share of detractors. A common criticism is that forums lead to rote,…Continue Reading Avoiding Death By Discussion Forum
Every Fall, ATSI updates our Moodle instance to provide enhanced security and functionality. For faculty, it’s easy to miss finding out about new Moodle features or changes that can enrich student learning, or just create new efficiencies in your work. In this post, I want to roll-up and present the top new features available to…Continue Reading Fresh Moodle Features for Fall
Presentations are a valuable learning activity – giving students the opportunity to practice speech and communication skills, to collaborate with others, and to develop digital, design, or storytelling literacies. However, when attempting to cycle through many individual or group presentations in limited class time, there can often be unneccesary stress and frustration as students take…Continue Reading TlC Toolkit: Managing Digital Files for Student Presentations