Do You Use Copyright Films In Your Course? Please Read!
As we learn more about copyright and our responsibility here at NMC to be in compliance, Educational Media Technologies has been working to develop our process of how copyright videos are used in courses. Because use of online materials falls under the TEACH Act, we...
Using Technology to Improve Student Learning: The Flipped Classroom
Have you been wondering what a flipped classroom means in practice? Thinking about how to increase your students' learning engagement between classes in order to spend time in class for rich discussion or project work? California University of Pennsylvania is offering...
A Different Kind of Flipped Classroom: Student Reactions to Competency-Based Education
The terms flipped classroom and competency-based education (CBE) are frequently used to describe strategies targeting the need for graduates having identified and acquired skills used in the work force. Interestingly, both terms refer to different fundamental paradigm...
Moodle Gradebook Survey is now open again
The Moodle developers are going to be focusing on making the Moodle Gradebook better and they need your help. The Moodle developers are asking for your feedback: If you could change just one thing about the Moodle Gradebook what would you change? What would you never...
You Asked and Moodle Listened!
For those of you who do not want students notified of a grade until you have completed grading the Notify Students option has returned. You will find the Notify Students drop down menu located at the bottom of the page just under the Feedback Files. Changing this to...
Welcome to the Summer Edition of the SCOOP
In the summer edition of the SCOOP we would like to feature posts from all of you. There is no size requirement for your post. This can be about anything that you would like to share. It can even be just a couple of sentences with a link. To participate, all you have...
Congratulations to the teachingSOLUTIONS Boot Camp Class of 2014!
What happens when you fill a room with passionate educators from numerous disciplines as well as computers, and give them a week to complete numerous challenges together and individually? You get a week that flies by as people learn new skills, discuss ways to help...
Lecture Capture Saves the Day
Students require many different methods for the delivery of educational content from my advanced medical-surgical and pharmacology classes. Over the past few years, many have requested that I record my lectures so they can go back over the content (foreign language to...
The Developers of Moodle Want to Know:
The Moodle developers are going to be focusing on making the Moodle Gradebook better and they need your help. The Moodle developers are asking for your feedback: If you could change just one thing about the Moodle Gradebook what would you change? What would you never...
New to Moodle? Basic Template Available
We have put together a basic course template that can be imported into your course upon request. It includes an Instructor Content Block, an Instructor Announcement Forum, and instructions on how to add your Syllabus. To get this template added to your Moodle shell,...