Workshop sessions will be held in the Language Learning Center (LLC), located in Canaday 315 . Each of these sessions will run for an hour. Please RSVP using this link: “Moodle Workshops.” You are more than welcome to attend multiple sessions, since each session will be structured around participant knowledge and participant interest, changing with [...]
It is essential to protect and preserve all your hard work by backing up your Moodle site and all of your course documents. If you are planning to teach your course again (or teach a similar topic) in the future, you will want a copy of your files available for immediate access. Here are step-by-step instructions [...]
Moodle Transition Information As you may be aware, last year the Tri-Colleges conducted a major product review comparing Blackboard with a popular alternative called Moodle. Blackboard is the dominant commercial software company in higher education. Moodle is free, open source software that has been adopted by many institutions of higher education, including many liberal arts [...]
Occasionally things just go wrong. When they do, you can always come to us and we will do our best to find a solution as quickly as possible. That being said, however, there are some questions that are asked more often than others. These questions have simple solutions that can be explained briefly here. If [...]
As a college with a diverse and vibrant community, it is important to keep in mind accessibility issues for those with visual, auditory, and learning disabilities. As Bryn Mawr continues to transition to Moodle—the course management system replacing Blackboard—Web Accessibility needs to be a constant concern for faculty, staff, and students. Print impaired users typically [...]
Moodle gives faculty the option of deciding when to make their courses available to their students. By default, all academic courses are made available to students, meaning any student who has preregistered for the course can access it on Moodle. However, there is the option to make it unavailable until it is ready. This is [...]
There are many reasons why embedding editable Google documents to your Moodle Course may be useful. For example, you may have a document you wish the entire class to contribute. Whatever your need may be, this post will give you step by step instructions detailing just exactly how to do this. There is a small [...]
Want to start working on your course, but don’t want your students to see an unfinished product? Want to post things ahead of time? Moodle lets you hide things that you upload or create, making it invisible to the students, but always available to you. Here are step-by-step instructions for hiding items in your course, [...]
Don’t like your picture in Moodle? It’s easy to change! To do this, first look for your name in the upper right-hand corner of Moodle. (You should be able to see this from almost any page on the Moodle site.) Click on your name, and you’ll be brought to your profile. You should see some [...]
The Quiz is a great assessment tool provided by Moodle that can be used to test and evaluate students online. What’s more, all of the results and grades will be recorded into the course and the Gradebook, making it a very easy and versatile activity to use. 1. Select “Quiz” from the Activities dropdown menu [...]