I have been thinking a lot recently about assessment. First, I've been thinking about it because, you know, it's a lot of what we do as teachers--we try to figure out what students are learning and what they are struggling with. Second, I was part of Nick Roster's...

For the past three years, the CIE- and PDI-sponsored NMC October Conference has been a wonderful day of collaboration and engagement for all faculty and staff. However, due to the pandemic, we are not able to collaborate in the same way this year. And I think we all...

The August Conference has traditionally been held on Monday afternoon right after Opening Conference, but because this year will be very different both in terms of meetings and teaching, CIE has decided to take a different approach. Rather than spending an afternoon...

Students enrolled in online classes have been required to complete NMC's Online Learning Orientation (OLO) course since the beginning of the Fall 2019 term. During the Fall 2020 term, OLO will still be required of students taking fully online courses. OLO will not be...

Recently Tina Ulrich (retired NMC Library Director and current Creative Commons certified OER Consultant) shared these fantastic OER curation guides based on Colorado’s Top 40 courses with members of the OER Squad. The guides, compiled by librarians and vetted by...

Whole forum grading is a new feature to Moodle 3.8 that allows instructors to assess student forum postings from an intuitive grading interface that collects all of each student’s postings on one page. Here’s how to set it up: Step 1: From within your course in...