Keep the following Moodle-related dates in mind as we rapidly approach the start of the summer term: Monday, May 6th — Students populated in Summer 2019 (1903) courses. You’ll be able to see student lists in Moodle on this day. Students will not be able to see courses unless you turn a course on early.Friday,… Continue Reading Upcoming Moodle Dates
As NMC works to improve equal educational access for all students, the Education Technology department recently completed an accessibility review of Moodle’s quiz question types. While most question types met accessibility requirements in accordance with American Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, five of them did not and have therefore been removed from Moodle until developers make… Continue Reading Changes to Moodle Question Types
Creating quizzes from videos in your Ensemble library can be a great way to increase student engagement and determine whether or not they have viewed your video content. Best of all, quizzes are quick and easy to create. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: Log on to Ensemble and Add a Quiz The first… Continue Reading Creating a Video Quiz in Ensemble
Coming to all faculty and students in 2019 is an exciting new feature we’ve recently installed on Moodle. It’s called MathType (coupled with ChemType) and it’s located within your text editor interface. MathType allows users to create math and chemistry formulas anywhere they have the ability to enter multiple lines of text within their Moodle… Continue Reading Exciting New Moodle Text Editor Feature!
The newest version of Ensemble (installed in November 2018) contains several new features, but the most exciting is that videos now allow instructors to embed quizzes and have those quiz scores automatically transfer to their Moodle gradebook! The feature is fairly intuitive to use, and gradebook integration is smooth provided instructors add their Ensemble videos… Continue Reading Exciting New Ensemble Feature!
