Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS
Haverford College
Perusall is a powerful tool with lots of features. Students can work individually, in groups, or as a class to study, annotate and discuss docs and other media. You can also use Perusall to create assignments around annotations. While you can evaluate those assignments yourself, you can also have Perusall provide students with automatic, AI-enhanced…
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With so many classes online, many faculty are looking for ways to create and share video with students. This article will help you pick options that work for your needs? We look at several types of videos: feature films, online videos, and your own video files. Feature films Sharing feature films has both technical and…
In mid-July, IITS implemented a new feature for Zoom. Zoom cloud recordings are now automatically copied to our Panopto recording/video hosting system. Once on Panopto, you can edit, share, or delete recordings as you like. If you are using Zoom for an academic course, you can make the copy to go directly into the Panopto…
Read more New option for saving, editing, and sharing Zoom cloud recordings
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…
Haverford faculty, students, and staff can get a Pro Zoom account under the Haverford college site license with Haverford credentials. You need a zoom account to host zoom meetings (classes), but you do not need a zoom account to join zoom meetings. Therefore, your students including Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore students can join your zoom…
