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Faculty & CIE Articles
Exciting New Ensemble 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...
Don’t Grade Alone!
Instead, THIS THURSDAY, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good company as you dig into those final tests and essays. Join CIE, EMT and the Osterlin Library for The Long Night of Grading (or as Tom Gordon likes to call...
Important Upcoming Moodle Dates
As we close down 2018 and finalize NMC's Fall semester, be aware of these important Moodle dates: Friday, December 27th – Fall 2018 (1901) courses turned off. We routinely turn courses off after the course ends. If you need a course left open, please submit a ticket....
The Long Night of Grading is here!
The end of the semester is in sight. We have two more weeks of class and then finals week, and we know that that means--GRADING! But you don’t have to grade alone. Instead, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good company...
Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice
We are working with an instructor to create a new online Geography course this fall. As part of that process, I created a demo quiz that contains several different types of quiz questions that can be created in Moodle. That's right, Moodle can do more than just...
Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors
Last spring at the beginning of the semester, one of my online Eng. 111 students wasn’t logging into Moodle or responding to my emails. If he didn’t get started soon, he’d be a week behind. I pulled his transcript, saw that he was a dual-enrolled student from...
Horizon
I would like to share with you a poem titled “Horizon.” It is from a book of poems by Rudy Francisco titled: Helium. I came across the book during a Read Harder challenge. I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments. I hope there is something beautiful on...
Gratitude
Last year, when my daughter was a freshman in college and having a really hard time, she would complain to me about everything. She was unable to see anything good about her college, her new city, her life far from home. So I pulled out a strategy I used to use when...








