NEW Moodle Plugins & Training Opportunities – MUST READ!
We've recently installed several new Moodle plugins that offer some incredible functions and usable features for the online portion of your courses. We've added tools that help you: boost student engagement get notifications when assignments are ready to be graded...
Ensemble: Create a Custom Thumbnail Image
There is a new feature in Ensemble that allows you to quickly create your own thumbnail image for your video. This is the image that shows when you see the video in your library or pull it up to preview or play it. No more thumbnails of you caught with a funny face!...
Congratulations to John Velis and Al Laursen
Be sure to congratulate John Velis and Al Laursen when you see them around campus in the next few weeks. They are this year's nominees for the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching Excellence Award and will be recognized at the NISOD...
January PD Day: Creating Significant Learning
Thanks to all faculty who attended the January PD day on Monday. We hope the overview of Dee Fink's significant learning model was useful and helps you feel ready to write or revise your outcomes as well as link your assessments to your outcomes. Here are a couple...
The Long Night of Grading Got It Done!
[slideshow_deploy id='11594'] A number of faculty gathered in the library on the last Thursday of the semester to pound out some final grading. Mark DeLonge and Ryan Bernstein were there to solve Moodle problems and Tina Ulrich helped with research questions. We broke...
Introducing the New Sharing Showcase
EMT and CIE are excited to announce the new Sharing Showcase, a collection of videos showcasing the best practices of faculty and staff at NMC. These short videos cover topics from service learning to using the active learning classrooms to specific course activities...
Moodle Gradebook/User Report Changes – Spring 2017
You might notice a few changes this term in the Moodle gradebook User report. We've turned off "Calculated weight" and "Contribution to course total" as default elements that students see when they check individual course grades. Below is an image of what the default...
Announcing Sharing Showcase
A collection of videos celebrating best practices of NMC faculty and staff! Appearing January 9, the Sharing Showcase web-page will open with a growing collection of 2 to 3 minute videos within categories such as: Active learning. Engagement. Using technology....
Moodle Server Reboot – Christmas Day
On Christmas Day (12/25/16) we're going to reboot the Moodle server at 12:00 p.m. We expect Moodle to be unavailable for approximately 4 hours. The reboot allows us to perform a forced file consistency check, which is a routine procedure that basically ensures that...
Low Vision Awareness
December 3rd was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. You might not have even noticed. There wasn’t a lot of buzz. Sometimes when we see articles that include “international” or “worldwide” in the title we lose interest. Those macro level issues can...