Circumventing an Extra Credit Moodle Gradebook Bug
Most NMC instructors are aware of the significant changes made to the gradebook in the newest version of Moodle (4.2). Many of these gradebook changes, and how to navigate them, have been addressed in the recent Moodle Minute(s) Managing Overrides in the Moodle...
What’s on your desk, Tiffani Wilke?
Tiffani Wilke is wrapping up her third year as a Science & Math Instructor at NMC and she was kind enough to have me over to her office in the Biederman building to take pictures of some of her office décor for the final installment in the What’s on Your...
Rethinking Assignments and Assessment for an A.I. World
Like it or not, generative A.I. is a disrupter in the learning space. In particular, we know that many of our traditional writing-based assignments and assessments are no longer viable because students can complete them too easily using A.I. None of us are...
Do the ‘Cite’ Thing, Part II
In an earlier post, I surveyed differing approaches to issues of sourcing, transparency and ‘information integrity’ in generative AI platforms. The underlying questions there dealt with how AI tools handle sourcing and citation within their own algorithmically generated output. A second distinct but related challenge deals with developing new norms around transparency and disclosure as it relates to human use of AI tools in the human authorship of work—which is to say our work, and the work of our students.