Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS
Haverford College
Do you have students that need extended time or other timing adjustments on assessments? Moodle allows you to override the timing and duration on Quiz and Assignment activities. The article discusses how to do this. It also warns of some serious issues with the group override option. Warning Before going any further, you should know…
Read more Do you have students that need extended time on assessments?
As of February 23, 2021, all meetings and webinars created with your licensed Haverford Zoom account have the option for auto-transcription—AI-powered real-time captioning for your meeting. You and your participants will be able to see those captions during the meeting. There is also a setting that hosts can enable prior to a meeting that allow…
You have a few options for emailing students in your class. Obviously, you can just email them with Gmail. However, if you have a large class, Moodle will make it much easier to email all students—or groups of students within your class. At the start of each semester, IITS sends out Moodle tips that include…
Hiroyo Saito, Director of Instructional Technology at Haverford, hosted a Roundtable Discussion on online teaching on February 2nd. Several faculty from the sciences and humanities attended and shared a lively conversation about their ideas and experiences with online teaching. Participants looked at a variety of tips and techniques for teaching online effectively during both asynchronous…
Instructional Technology Services, IITS invites you to roundtable discussion sessions and office hours to help you get ready for the spring semester. Talk to peers and IITS staff to prepare your online-only or dual/hybrid mode classes. Roundtable discussion on online teaching Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Facilitator: Hiroyo Saito Hiroyo will…
With the start of another Covid-19 restricted semester, Moodle will be an important part of most courses. This message is long and covers the following important Moodle topics:
The newest version of Voicethread has significant updates that will benefit users at Haverford greatly. We transitioned to this new version over break and would like to share detailed information about these updates with any current users. Below are all of the detailed updates that Voicethread made regarding assignments and how both students and instructors…
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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IITS is happy to introduce a new feature for the Spring 2020 semester. Students can now create or upload video from within the Moodle assignment tool. You can create a Moodle assignment that accepts video submissions pretty much like you create any Moodle assignment. This means that students can now easily upload videos of any…
Introduction Several rooms on campus have been outfitted with microphones and cameras, which can be utilized during Zoom sessions and/or lecture capture (Panopto). The exact equipment within each space does vary, so be sure to check each room that you are teaching in for its specifications. This page on the IITS site provides specifications for…
Read more Classroom Technology: Zoom/Panopto Tips and Procedures.
