NEW Licenses for Camtasia and Snagit Now Available!
Camtasia and Snagit are powerful educational technologies that can have many practical applications for instructors. Both technologies fall into the category of screen recording/screen capture tools, and (depending on what you want to accomplish) you’ll use either one...
Five Tips for Using Spring Fever as a Springboard for Learning
The glorious sun has finally chased winter away just in time for the push towards finals week. After six months of cold and grey, it is a challenge to keep focused on anything indoors—especially for those students who already struggle with school. Fortunately,...
Free Food, Free Coffee, & Great Ideas in May! teachingSOLUTIONS is Back.
You are invited to join us for the 5th Annual teachingSOLUTIONS Summer PD program: Learn Moodle, web-enhance your class, and earn NMC's Online Teaching Certificate. Watch our new promo video describing the two delivery methods and then call or email to reserve your...
Videos Automatically Embedding in Moodle?
Have you ever used the linking feature in the Moodle editor to create a text link to a YouTube or Vimeo video? If you have, you may have noticed that Moodle embeds the video directly into the site instead of creating a link. This is because of a Moodle multimedia...
New NMC Moodle Theme Available This Week!
Last month, Mark Delonge told you about upcoming Changes to Moodle, including the shift to a new, responsive Moodle theme. We’re happy to tell you that later this week NMC instructors can start logging into their summer and fall courses to see the new theme. The new...
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is becoming more popular at NMC, and the more people who use it, the more valuable it becomes. This tool allows for both public and private posting of events, meetings, daily schedules, and a host of other scheduling information which may prove...
Everyone Has a Story 2
Sunday April 19, 2015 2:00-4:00PM Inside Out Gallery Free admission Writers from the NMC Writing Workshop for folks experienced with homeless will read their work ASL interpreting by Leanne Baumeler Sponsored by the NMC Foundation For more information please contact...
Additional SoftChalk Licenses Now Available
One of the educational technologies that you’ve had at your disposal for the last several years has been SoftChalk, a tool that allows you to create customized interactive learning content, activities and quizzes that can be integrated into your Moodle course in a...
Password, NMC ID, & Security Questions
A quick 3 part guide to password resets, finding user ID and reset security questions. Part 1: Forgot Your NMC ID? Let’s start off with the page you see below. Just when you need to login your mind goes blank. What do you do? You can call the NMC Technology Help Desk...
Preparing Students for the Home Stretch
Sports dominated the TV this weekend with Red Wings games and Michigan State playing in the Final Four. Watching, I thought about how successful coaches and players maintain intensity until the last possible second and how as instructors we can do the same for our...