Zoom Breakout Rooms for Office Hours or Study Sessions

Zoom Breakout Rooms for Office Hours or Study Sessions

Zoom’s core feature, Breakout Rooms, is a great tool for online office hours or study sessions. It allows the meeting host to split their Zoom meeting in up to 50 different sessions, deciding to either automatically or manually place participants in the rooms....
Two Mini-PD Opportunities in January

Two Mini-PD Opportunities in January

CIE is offering two learning opportunities for faculty on Jan. 11. Helping Your Students Read the Textbook Thursday, Jan. 11, 10:00-10:45 in SH 204. The first session led by Nancy Gray and Kristen Salathiel will be a practical, hands-on workshop focused on specific...
A Call to Order

A Call to Order

I learned something really cool about Moodle’s ordering questions. If you are familiar with these, skip to the last two paragraphs; otherwise, read on for a description of them and how they work. Mark Delonge turned me on to “ordering” questions in...
FOR FACULTY WORKING WITH OER

FOR FACULTY WORKING WITH OER

Helping bring down the cost of college by choosing free or low-cost textbooks is one way faculty can lighten the load for students and keep them on the path to a degree.  As the cost of textbooks has risen, students have coped by simply not purchasing them.  Having...
Bloopers and May PD

Bloopers and May PD

Season 1 of the NMC Pickers is complete, and we wanted to share our Bloopers with you before summer is here.  Be sure to check it out and see Ryan singing, Lisa swearing, and Mark spinning. We also wanted to share three different PD opportunities in May and June.  We...