Openstax: FREE your Students from Costly Textbooks

Openstax: FREE your Students from Costly Textbooks

Last semester’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Pilot Project was a huge success. The 10 instructors who took part in the project, combined with instructors who were already using OERs, helped to save students over $137,000 in just one semester. A few of these...
You’re Invited: EvaluationKIT Open Workshop/Training Sessions

You’re Invited: EvaluationKIT Open Workshop/Training Sessions

EvaluationKIT is the new course evaluation system being used at NMC and you’re invited to attend an open workshop/training session to learn how use your EvaluationKIT dashboard. Feel free to pop in at any point during one of the sessions below to learn how to access...
EvaluationKIT: Checking Course Evaluation Results & More

EvaluationKIT: Checking Course Evaluation Results & More

In the fall of 2015, NMC started using EvaluationKIT for end term course evaluations. The video below contains instructions for accessing EvalutionKIT, but there are many other useful features you may find interesting. Did you know that you can see how many students...
NMC Records & Retention, Moodle Gradebooks, Course Backups & More

NMC Records & Retention, Moodle Gradebooks, Course Backups & More

It’s an NMC policy to retain 5 years of gradebook records. Many instructors print off and save their own gradebook records, and we’re going to assist in these efforts by saving the gradebook of any course that currently exists in Moodle. We’re going to export these...
Phubbing & Nomophobia: lol, but seriously tho

Phubbing & Nomophobia: lol, but seriously tho

I’ve had a few interesting interactions recently around behaviors stemming from our use (and overuse) of technology and the subsequent new terminology that has crept into our lexicon. We’ve had our go-round in recent years with words like ‘hashtag’, ‘photobomb’,...