How Many Points is that Worth?
Instructors may hear this question from students regarding an assignment and how it will affect their grade. AND instructors may ask themselves the same question when entering scores into the grade book. You can direct students to your syllabus to answer their...
Extended Time for Quizzes
There are two ways to accommodate the need for extended times, User Overrides and applying the Student No Time Limit role. User Overrides Open your quiz. From the Administration menu, click on User Overrides. Click the Add user override button. Select...
Accommodations
Although it seems hard to believe, fall semester 2015 is in full swing. All summer I have been meeting with your new and returning students to collect their disability related paperwork and help them apply for accommodations. By now you may have received an...
A Quick Read from the EDUCAUSEreview
The following article, "From Accommodations to Accessibility: Creating Learning Environments That Work for All," is taken from the EDUCAUSEreview, and is an excellent read.
Things to Consider
Posting Handouts Online Don't scan in notes, articles, example text, etc. Scans are treated like images and cannot be read by assistive technology. Type up hand written notes. Provide a link to information/articles when possible. If using a piece of text from an email...
Use GotoMeeting? Please Read Important Information
Support changes for Mac OS 10.7 coming soon. Please read the latest news from Citrix below: Upgrade to the latest OS We’re always working to make our products better, and sometimes that means trading out support for an older browser or operating system so we can focus...
Lecture Capture: Relay Users Please Read!
We recently upgraded to the latest version of TechSmith Relay. When you record lectures in the classroom you may be prompted to perform an Update - please ignore this. There is no need to run the update in the classroom. If you have any questions or run into any...
Extra Credit Assignments in the Moodle 2.9 Grade Book
We’ve put out a lot of information recently about new features in Moodle 2.9, many of which pertain to the grade book. One big improvement is that if a field in the gradebook is empty, Moodle will no longer value that field as a zero when calculating cumulative course...
Moodle 2.9 New Features – Video
We’ve recently upgraded to Moodle 2.9 and there are many new features to learn about. We’ve held several open training sessions and visited many departments to give overviews and demonstrate new features, but just in case you weren’t able to attend we also created the...
SoftChalk Users Please Read!
Please check out the following blog post from SoftChalk entitled, "Saying Goodbye to NPAPI." It looks like if you use Chrome to access SoftChalk Cloud to create and edit lessons you will either need to use a different browser, or load the local...