According to information services CIO Curt Pederson, Ben Kahn (pictured) from academic technology services and innovations will be leaving his position at UP on October 8. “Ben will be extremely missed at UP,” says Pederson. “He has done a fantastic job during his time here in both his prior Moodle role and as interim director […]
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Auto-Generated Captions Enabled on UP MediaSpace
Machine (auto-generated) captions have been enabled on any new videos uploaded to UP MediaSpace, according to Ben Kahn, academic technology services & innovation. Captions can be toggled on or off by viewers with the CC button on the video player. A video owner can edit or remove the auto-captions by navigating to Actions->Edit->Captions on their […]
Moodle Updates from ATSI
The following tips and updates are offered by academic technology services and innovation, according to Ben Kahn: Assignment feedback annotation: Moodle has an ability for teachers to grade and annotate student papers from right in your web browser. With the large increase in assignment submissions in Moodle, the Annotate PDF feedback feature in Moodle assignments […]
Moodle Drop-in Hours Before Spring Term
Working on getting your spring Moodle course set-up before the new semester starts? Drop by Franz 33 any time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, January 6 through Thursday Jan 9. Academic technology services and innovation staff will be there to help with issues or questions big and small. Come for help with […]
Moodle Downtime on Dec. 19
Moodle will be down the evening of Thursday, December 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., so information services can install the latest security and bug fixes. There will also be improvements to the site theme and installation new plugins to give instructors more capabilities and flexibility within Moodle: Group self selection: allow students to create or […]
Moodle Drop-in Hours, Dec. 2: Your Way To Stress-Free Holidays
Need some help with your Moodle life? Drop by Franz 33 any time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, December 2 through Thursday December 5 and academic technology services and innovation staff will be there to help with issues big and small, from gradebook set-up to getting your spring courses into tip-top shape. […]
Spring 2020 Moodle Courses: Timing, What’s New, and Support
Spring 2020 courses will be available in Moodle starting Friday, November 15 to allow instructors to get an early start in preparing courses for the upcoming semester, according to Ben Kahn. If you don’t see your courses right away, don’t press the panic button. It takes a few days to get all of the courses […]
Participants Wanted: Annotate the Web With Your Students
The academic technology services & innovation office is seeking faculty participants to pilot digital annotation software for teaching and learning. ATSI will be partnering with Hypothesis, a non-profit and open-source tool allowing any webpage to be collaboratively annotated, commented on, and discussed. Initial research suggests that the social reading this technology allows can improve comprehension, […]
Attention WordPress Users: Recurring Maintenance Window and New User Group
WordPress is a great way for UP community members to create sites. We use it for class blogs, event sites, professional pages, and so on. It’s also the most popular system for creating a website in the world. In fact, according to the latest estimates over 33% of all websites on the entire internet are […]
TLC From The TLC: Need a Moodle Question Answered?
Do you have Moodle questions? Maybe you are new to UP and are coming from using a different learning management system 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 […]