Important Upcoming Moodle Dates

Important Upcoming Moodle Dates

As we close down 2018 and finalize NMC’s Fall semester, be aware of these important Moodle dates: Friday, December 27th – Fall 2018 (1901) courses turned off. We routinely turn courses off after the course ends. If you need a course left open, please submit a...
The Long Night of Grading is here!

The Long Night of Grading is here!

The end of the semester is in sight. We have two more weeks of class and then finals week, and we know that that means–GRADING! But you don’t have to grade alone. Instead, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good...
Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice

Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice

We are working with an instructor to create a new online Geography course this fall.  As part of that process, I created a demo quiz that contains several different types of quiz questions that can be created in Moodle.  That’s right, Moodle can do more than...
Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors

Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors

Last spring at the beginning of the semester, one of my online Eng. 111 students wasn’t logging into Moodle or responding to my emails. If he didn’t get started soon, he’d be a week behind. I pulled his transcript, saw that he was a dual-enrolled student from...
How Wrong I Can Be

How Wrong I Can Be

It always starts on day one of classes when my first activity is for them to line up by birthday, irrespective of year. My objective is just to get them moving, interact some with each other, and to suggest that my courses are not very conventional. The process is...