Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS
Haverford College
If you use Zoom in your academic courses, you may want to take advantage of a new tool, added July 2020, that makes it easy to schedule and manage course Zoom sessions. These sessions can be for live classes or for course videos you create in Zoom. If you record these Zoom sessions to the…
This post outlines what you need to do to allow students to “shop” your course(s) online.
Under the current circumstances, the traditional bluebook is not viable. However, you can use a Moodle quiz or the Moodle assignment to distribute and grade the type of exam that works for your course. A Moodle assignment works well for collecting final papers or untimed essay questions. For timed exams, or exams with multiple choice…
Read more From Bluebook to Moodle: Options for giving an exam online
The Moodle Assignment module lets you collect student assignments—including research papers, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, and short audio or video recordings—online. The video below is a great resource for seeing how to add an assignment and to understand many of the most useful options. A text version of the information, along with some specific recommendations for…
Read more The Moodle Assignment: Collect and grade submitted work
Below are instructions form sharing when you start a meeting from a Macintosh computer–and connect to the device with a cable–or connect from any computer, including Windows. NOTE: You may need to update your iOS device to the latest version of the operating system to share the screen either of the ways discussed below. If…
Zoom is a great way to interact with students, both in classes and in one-on-one meetings. But Moodle provides some very useful ways for students to connect with you and with each other asynchronously, which is important because students are spread over different time zones, may have unreliable or slow internet, or might be obliged…
VoiceThread (VT) is a web-based tool for creating commentary around images, video, or text. VT is very easy to use and can be assigned to individuals or groups of students. Below are a few examples of different types of VoiceThreads to give an idea of the types of things that you can do with this…
You may have seen the term “learning analytics” recently. Learning analytics allow you to get information about students, with the goal of helping them learn better. Some types of analytics, such as assessments and grades have been used as analytics for a long, long time. However, by using relatively new tools in Moodle and other…
Read more Are students doing their readings, and other questions
