Need help with grading in Moodle? Grades need to be approved in SPIRE just before midnight on Tuesday, May 12. If you would like to meet with a Moodle Gradebook expert to review your gradebook before the end of the semester please contact the Instructional Media Lab at 413-545-2823, or instruct@umass.edu. Final grades from the Moodle…
Do you grade exclusively with letters and wish Moodle didn’t require you to enter numeric grade values then set them to display as letters? Did you know that there’s a new feature in Moodle that lets you enter or upload alphabetical letter grades into a manually created column in the Moodle Gradebook? This is especially…
We would like to invite you to a Lunch & Learn event on Friday, May 1st, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Our campus i>Clicker representative will join us to talk about the new i>Clicker 7, which we will use on campus this fall; REEF Polling, i>Clicker’s new mobile solution; and best practices for using i>Clicker…
Summer & Fall 2015 Moodle Course Requests Open Primary instructors can now request courses in SPIRE for Fall and Summer 2015 classes. It’s easy to copy a course from a previous semester into your new empty course. Any changes you make in a course before the upgrade, will not be affected by the upgrade in…
Turnitin Downtime – Saturday, March 7 Turnitin has announced that their services are expected to be unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 7, 2015, from 10 AM to 2 PM. Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment due dates to avoid the scheduled maintenance window. Scheduled maintenance windows are the first and third…
On February 9 — 11, you are invited to join members of the IT group at ELI Virtual Annual Meeting 2015. This conference is arranged by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. We’ll be projecting the virtual meeting sessions in our 40-seat conference room in…
On Monday, February 9, 2015, courses taught up to and including Spring 2013 will be removed from Moodle at Umass Amherst (moodle.umass.edu). Please note that Adhoc courses and courses on open.umass.edu will not be affected. Courses are removed from the server 18 months after the end of the semester taught to make room in Moodle…
Greetings Moodle Instructors, With classes starting up next week, we are here to help you get your Spring Semester Moodle courses underway. This update covers the following announcements: Reminder: Removal of Old Moodle Courses New in Moodle for Spring 2015 Coming in July: Moodle 2.8 Reminder: Removal of Old Moodle Courses On February 9, 2015,…
With Spring 2015 classes set to begin on Tuesday, Jan, 20, we have some information to help make sure you are ready for the start of the semester: Most Moodle courses open to students on Friday, Jan. 16 Make sure your TAs have access to Moodle How to request your Spring 2015 on-campus Moodle courses…
IMPORTANT: SPIRE will be down for maintenance Friday, Dec. 19th beginning at 5:30 pm and will be available again Saturday morning by 9 am. (See below for more.) Final grades are due in SPIRE just before midnight on Monday, December 22. To make sure you are ready, we have some important Moodle grading and end-of-semester…
Echo360 will be unavailable on Sunday, 12/14, from approximately 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. for scheduled maintenance. What You Need to Know You will not be able to log in to the Echo System Server or publish recordings during the downtime. Your students will not be able to view recordings that are hosted on the…
We hope your Fall ’14 semester was a good one! Please join us for our winter 2015 workshops, or contact us for one-on-one appointments to learn about a variety of topics, including: Building Your New Moodle Course Use Apple TV to Untether Your Teaching Build Your Own iOS Apps (Without Coding!) Final Cut X –…