Experiential Education Academy Certifies NMC Staff & Faculty
At last Monday’s Winter Conference guest speaker Dr. Randy Bass of Georgetown University facilitated discussion around high-impact experiential learning practice and the future of human learning in higher education. Over the next three days twenty NMC faculty and...
A Preview: Mandatory Online Learning Orientation
Beginning with registration for fall 2019, all students taking an online class for the first time at NMC will be required to complete an Online Learning Orientation (OLO). In addition, any student who has not been successful (2.0 or better) in a previous NMC online...
Exciting New Moodle Text Editor Feature!
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...
General Education Outcomes
The phrase “General Education” refers to the educational foundation of skills, knowledge, habits of mind, and values that prepare students for success in their majors and in their personal and professional lives upon transferring or graduating. At Northwestern...
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...