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Instructional Technology Services is offering the following workshops from Monday, August 24 through September 4. Sessions are open to Haverford faculty and staff. Please register for the sessions that interest you.

Schedule

Monday, August 24

Make Moodle as Your Course Hub: Getting Started with Moodle and Its Friends!

Tuesday, August 25

Assessing Learning using Moodle Quiz

Get Ready for Fall, Office Hours (8/25)

  • Open session: Drop-in and ask anything
  • Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Instructor: Sharon Strauss
  • Zoom Registration Link

Wednesday, August 26

Host interactive Zoom sessions!

Friday, August 28

Assessing Learning using Moodle Assignment

Monday, August 31

Create and Share Your Lecture Videos with Panopto

Moodle for Beginners (8/31)

Tuesday, September 1

Assessing Learning using the Moodle Gradebook

Classroom Technology Office Hours (9/1)

Wednesday, September 2

VoiceThread as your Asynchronous Classroom

Get Ready for Fall, Office Hours (9/2)

  • Open session: Drop-in and ask anything
  • Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Instructor: Sharon Strauss
  • Zoom Registration Link

Thursday, September 3

Assessing Learning using Moodle Rubrics

Classroom Technology Office Hours (9/3)

Friday, September 4

Facilitate peer review via Moodle

Workshop Descriptions

Make Moodle as Your Course Hub:
Getting Started with Moodle and Its Friends

Description

It is a good idea to use Moodle as a hub for your courses this fall. You can organize all the course related materials there for your students. If you are new to Moodle, Zoom, Panopto, and VoiceThread, this workshop is for you. 

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty who are new to Moodle, Zoom, Panopto, and VoiceThread.

Pre-workshop Assignments:

Before the workshop, please:

  1. Login to Moodle with your Haverford Credentials.
  2. Find your course in Moodle.
  3. Edit your profile in Moodle so that your students know who you are. This profile will show up in all of your courses in Moodle. Not sure how? Watch this short video on LinkedIn Learning (opens in a new window). Note: If you have never used LinkedIn Learning, please create your account at hav.to/learn with your Haverford credentials. Haverford College has an institutional license for LinkedIn Learning, so everyone has access to all courses on LinkedIn Learning.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Make your course visible to your students (Edit settings > Course visibility > Show).
  2. Modify the course format (Edit settings > Course Format > Format).
  3. View your Moodle course from a student perspective.
  4. Email students using either Announcements or Quick Mail. Describe the difference between Announcements vs Quick Mail.
  5. Turn editing on to edit your course.
  6. Add resources and activities to your course.
  7. Convert PDFs and other files into a more accessible format. 
  8. Add a Forum to your course.
    1. Subscribe to the Forum to get emails when there are new posts.
  9. Add a Zoom link to your course.
    1. Add recurring zoom meetings.
    2. Pre-assign breakout rooms.
    3. Add polls.
    4. Get meeting reports.
  10. Add a Panopto link to your course.
    1. Describe the relationship between the Zoom cloud recordings and Panopto recordings.
  11. Add a VoiceThread Home link to your course.
    1. Access the VoiceThread tutorials.
  12. Access Additional Resources on Moodle.
    1. QuickGuide to Using Moodle.
    2. Learning Moodle 3.8 by LinkedIn Learning (hav.to/learn).
    3. Moodle Docs 3.8.

Host interactive Zoom sessions!

Description

Zoom has some tools to make your meetings interactive. In this workshop, we are going to focus on four tools that Zoom provides: Breakout Rooms, Polling, Chat, and Whiteboard.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty who want to host interactive Zoom sessions.

Pre-workshop Assignments

Before the workshop, please:

  • Go to one of your courses in Moodle > Grades> Download a CSV file.
    • If you are not sure how, please watch this video. You will use the file to pre-assign breakout rooms.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Breakout Rooms
  1. Create breakout rooms on the fly automatically.
  2. Create breakout rooms on the fly manually.
  3. Broadcast a message to all.
  4. Pre-assign breakout rooms using a CSV file.
    1. Add a zoom meeting into a course in Moodle.
    2. Create a CSV file from the Moodle Grades tool.
    3. Download a CSV pre-assign breakout room template from Zoom and edit the file with your students.
    4. Upload the updated CSV.
    5. Change the names of the pre-assigned breakout rooms.
  5. Open pre-assigned breakout rooms, close all breakout rooms, then open up breakout rooms randomly, and open up pre-assigned breakout rooms.
  6. Allow students to record their breakout rooms to their local computer.
  7. Let TAs move between breakout rooms.
  • Polling
  1. Add a poll on the fly during the meeting. 
  2. Set up a poll and add multiple questions before the meeting.
    1. Schedule a Zoom meeting in Moodle.
    2. Set up a poll.
  3. Launch a poll.
  4. Add a poll using a poll template csv file.
  5. Get the poll results.
  • Chat
  1. Find the in-meeting chat text file that is saved automatically on your computer.
  2. Save in-meeting chat manually.
  3. Describe the difference between chat recordings that are saved on your local computer and in the cloud.
  • Whiteboard
  1. Start a Whiteboard.
  2. Allow students to participate in annotation.
  3. Show names of annotators.
  4. Help students to annotate over a Whiteboard.
  5. Clear all drawings, your own drawings, and viewers’ drawings.
  6. Add additional pages to the Whiteboard.
  7. Save the Whiteboard drawings as PNGs or PDFs.
  8. Use an iPad for the Whiteboard function within Zoom (optional).

Additional Resources

Create and Share Your Lecture Videos with Panopto

Description

Panopto is a good tool for you to create videos for your students to view, especially if you use PowerPoint or Keynotes. You can also use Panopto to share videos that you create with a different tool such as an iPad. 

Targeted Audience

  • Haverford Faculty who want to create lecture videos using PowerPoint, Keynotes, or screencasts. 
  • Haverford Faculty who are looking for a place to store videos.

Pre-workshop Assignments

Before the workshop, please:

  1. Add a Panopto link to your course in Moodle.
  2. Download a Panopto app to your computer.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Describe when you want to us Panopto.
  2. Add a Panopto link to your course in Moodle.
  3. Describe the relationship between Zoom cloud recordings and Panopto recordings.
  4. Download Panopto to your computer.
  5. Create a video using Panopto.
  6. Add automatic captions and edit them.
  7. Add a quiz to a video.
  8. Search inside a video for a written or spoken word.
  9. Edit a video.
  10. Share a specific video in a specific section of the course in Moodle either by embedding it or adding a link.
  11. Upload media files to Panopto.

Moodle for Beginners

Description

Now that all classes need at least some online component, Moodle is key to your teaching. Whether you are new to Haverford, or simply never needed to use Moodle before, this workshop will walk you through finding your course(s), adding materials, and making those materials available to students.

Bring your syllabus.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty who are new to Moodle, or want a refresher on the basics.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Log into Moodle and access your course
  • Make sure that all your students can access the course
  • Add a syllabus and readings to your course
  • Create a course design that works for your course content.
  • Move, hide, copy, and delete materials
  • Find your student roster, including student photos
  • Email the whole class or groups of students
  • View your course from a student perspective
  • See tools within Moodle that will let you host online discussions, collect student work, and privately return grades and feedback to each student.

VoiceThread as your Asynchronous Classroom

Description

You can use VoiceThread as your asynchronous classroom. You can share your slides, images, or videos and students can add questions and comments. If you are looking for a way to have threaded discussions using multimedia, this workshop is for you.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty who want to have asynchronous discussion with your students using voice.

Pre-workshop Assignments

Before the workshop, please:

  1. Add a VoiceThread Home link to your course in Moodle.
  2. From the link, check out Tutorials.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Add a VoiceThread Home link to your course in Moodle.
  2. Create a VoiceThread.
  3. Demonstrate the best practices using PowerPoint/Keynotes slides in VoiceThread.
  4. Add a specific VoiceThread to a specific section of your course in Moodle.
  5. Allow your students to add their questions and comments to your VoiceThread.
  6. Edit the VoiceThread settings.
  7. Use VoiceThread as an assessment tool.
    1. Assign students to watch a VoiceThread.
    2. Add comments to a VoiceThread.
    3. Create a VoiceThread.
  8. Use VoiceThread as an optional tool for your students’ projects.

Assessing Learning using Moodle Quiz

Description

Do you want to create tools to help students learn independently? Give students frequent, low-stakes assessments? Are you wondering how you will deliver your final exam, when students will not be on campus? The Moodle quiz can help you with all these scenarios, and more.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty interested in quizzing or testing students online.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Create a timed or untimed quiz
  2. Specify when a quiz is open or closed to students
  3. Add questions that meet your learning and assessment goals
  4. Organize questions into appropriate categories
  5. Understand grading
  6. Use powerful results analytics to find out where students struggle. For example, in addition to seeing what is correct or incorrect, you can see how long students spend answering each question.
  7. Conditional release, aka restricted access, to require a particular score on a quiz before seeing new activities.

Assessing Learning using Moodle Assignment

Description

The Moodle Assignment is a great option for collecting student submissions. All submissions are time stamped when uploaded, and available for you in one central location. Whether or not you are collecting work from students via this tool, you can use the Moodle assignment tool to clarify due dates and provide private grades and feedback to students.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty that assign student work.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Set up an assignment, including desired due date, submission requirements, grade settings, etc.
  2. See student submissions with date and time of submission
  3. Efficiently grade assignments within Moodle or offline/outside of Moodle
  4. Deal with handwritten assignments
  5. Create group assignments, where several students submit one project together
  6. Be aware of different feedback options (marking up submissions, text comments, recording audio or video feedback)

Assessing Learning using the Moodle Gradebook

Description

The Moodle grade book allows you to give students grades and feedback privately and online. It can also help you track and organize class progress.

Targeted Audience

All Haverford faculty members

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Create a Moodle gradebook that matches the assessment system you set in your syllabus
  2. Understand grade items vs. grade categories
  3. Understand when grades are passed from Moodle activities—such as assignments and quizzes—and when you need to add grade items via the gradebook
  4. Learn different options for aggregating/calculating grades
  5. Hide and show grade items, as desired
  6. Import and export course grades

Assessing Learning using Moodle Rubrics

Description

Learn how you can quickly and easily grade using rubrics and marking guides in Moodle. Discuss what makes a rubric successful in helping students create high quality work. Because the rubric is an advanced feature in the Moodle assignment tool, this course assumes basic experience with Moodle assignments.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty who use rubrics already, or who are thinking about using rubrics in the future.

Prerequisites

Attended a recent workshop on the Moodle assignment tool or existing experience using the tool in a course

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Share and/or learn from others about ingredients for a successful rubric
  2. Understand the difference between a rubric and marking guide in Moodle
  3. Configure a Moodle assignment to use rubrics or marking guide
  4. Use our existing rubric templates, or create a rubrics or marking guides from scratch
  5. See how assignments set up with rubrics or marking guides appear to students
  6. Grade assignments using your rubric or marking guide

Facilitate peer review in Moodle

Description

Peer review is a popular tool for helping students improve their own writing and become better editors of others’ work. Participants will share how they have facilitated peer review in the past, and any tips they’ve found work well for this process in terms of timing between drafts, guidelines for peer reviewers, etc..
We will look at quick and simple ways to implement peer review online, but most of this session will focus on how to use Moodle’s Workshop activity. Workshop is a powerful tool for facilitating peer review. It walks students through submitting and peer-reviewing multiple drafts of an assignment. It is a highly structured, multistep tool, which takes some work to set up. However, it helps students improve both their writing and their reviewing skills, because you can assess how well students reviewed their classmate’s work, as well as their actual submitted work. Whether or not you decide that the Moodle Workshop tool is for you, this workshop is intended to help you better plan and implement peer review in your courses—especially those that will be taught online.

Targeted Audience

Haverford Faculty using peer review in their courses. Since Moodle Workshop is a complicated tool, a good familiarity with Moodle is recommended.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Share and/or learn from others about ingredients for a successful peer review implementation.
  2. Be aware of simple options for implement peer review online, including the Moodle forum and the Student folder activities
  3. Set up and use the Moodle Workshop activity
    1. Understand the four Workshop stages
    2. Understand the options for allocation work to reviewers
    3. Implement rubrics, if desired, in the peer review process
    4. Enable options for students to review a sample submission, which you set up, before they review their peers
    5. Grade students on both their own submissions and how well they reviewed classmate’s work.

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