If you warrantied your teaching, what would it look like?
A common refrain heard at instructor events is the amount of effort students put into their work. Driving by this sign today, I had to laugh at the simple advice on how to fix situations where students aren't putting in the needed effort to meet desired instructor...
Printing at NMC
While going green is great, sometimes there is just no replacement for the printed page. The following document is your guide to setting up printers using the printing tools and resources available at NMC. NMC recently underwent a campus-wide update of printing...
We Are Not Alone (Teaching is not a solitary task)
Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) conference in Vegas. Five days of sessions conducted around peer-reviewed research focused on the best of what technology can bring to education for...
Do You Use GoToMeeting? Please Read
Some of you may have heard that the GoToMeeting interface is changing. It will still have all the same abilities, however they have made it easier to use. To see all of the new changes click here Watch this video of the changes.
Ordering Question – NEW to Moodle!
A new quiz question format has been added to our Moodle system. This new question format called Ordering, allows students to drag a random list of answers into the correct sequence. This new format will work well for: Steps in a process (spit, put toothpaste on your...
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small packet of data sent from a website and stored in the browser settings on the clients computer. This packet holds information of where the user went on the site, what their search contained and even login credentials. These cookies are important to...
SMARt Outcomes?
The Learning Outcomes Team (LOT) has been thinking about...well...outcomes. We are poised to help anyone create SMARt Learning Outcomes for their courses. Updated learning outcomes (SLOs) are due on Course Outlines by May 8th, 2015. Typically questions spring to mind...
Why Good Captions Matter!
Have you ever wondered why you should make sure your captions are accurate? Do you have videos in your courses that were made by someone else? Did you ever look at the captions that were added to those videos or did you just think because it had captions you were all...
When Logging into NMC Services Nothing Happens!
So you need to Login to NMC Services but when you hit the login button nothing happens, so you enter it again, still nothing happens. What should you do? If you are trying to log in using the myNMC link and don’t receive either a “Login Failed, please try again,”...
Changes to Moodle
Fall of 2014: At Pine Palooza, we found that more and more people are accessing Moodle using their mobile devices. Both phones and tablets account for large numbers of how students access Moodle. We have even heard rumors that instructors use their phones to access...