With Fall 2013 classes ending on Friday, December 6, and final exams on the horizon, we have some important Moodle grading and end-of-semester information for you: Grading with Moodle Tips for avoiding Moodle gradebook conflicts and overrides Recent fixes to the Moodle gradebook Transferring grades to Moodle from SPIRE Moodle Opscan support Moodle workshops for…
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Grading in a Moodle Course with Multiple Instructors or TAs
In previous semesters, Moodle users have experienced grading conflicts and unintended overrides when multiple graders attempt to make changes to a gradebook at the same time. To help prevent errors and unintended grade overrides, we have added a few features to the Grader report in Moodle at UMass Amherst. A warning appears when editing is…
Request Moodle for Winter Session and Spring 2014 On-Campus Courses
For each term you teach an on-campus class, you must request a Moodle course in SPIRE. Moodle course requests for Winter Session and Spring 2014 on-campus started with pre-registration on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 To request a Moodle course, log in to SPIRE at https://www.spire.umass.edu. In the Menu, go to Faculty Home > Moodle Course…
October 2013 Moodle News and Updates
With Fall 2013 classes ending in just one month, it is almost time to request Moodle for your Winter Session and Spring 2014 on-campus courses. (Moodle course requests begin with pre-registration on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013.) The October 2013 release of Moodle included some important updates: Videos in Moodle courses reused from a previous semester…
Fall 2013 OIT Workshops & Events
Please join us for our Fall 2013 workshops and events on a variety of topics, including: Using Moodle for grading Joining other Moodle instructors for a lunch discussion about how teaching in Moodle has been going since our upgrade to Moodle 2.4 Creating screencasts on your desktop or laptop with Camtasia (Windows and Macintosh) Hearing…
Mobile Devices and Classroom Polling at UMass Amherst- Fall 2013 Update
Instructors and students are interested in using mobile devices, such as phones, laptops, and tablets, as “clicker remotes” to respond to classroom polling. This would allow students to participate in clicker-based activities without requiring them to purchase and maintain a separate handheld remote. In Fall 2012 and Spring 2013, OIT ran a limited ran pilot…
Five College Digital Humanities Program- Request For Proposals
With support from the Five College Deans, the Steering Committee of the Mellon Foundation-funded Five College Digital Humanities Project is pleased to issue a new call for proposals for interdisciplinary humanities projects that advance use of digital technologies while promoting curriculum development and enhanced student learning through student-faculty scholarship. Grants will normally be in the…
September 2013 Moodle Updates
We hope your Fall 2013 semester is going well! The September 2013 release of Moodle included some important updates, including: Fixed issues with viewing Echo 360 recordings through Moodle Changes to how spell-check functions in Moodle Identified issue with recurring event times in the Moodle Calendar An update to allow Respondus to connect to Moodle…
October 17, 2013, Faculty Forum: Responsive Teaching
On Thursday, October 17 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., please join fellow instructors Curt Griffin (Environmental Conservation), Ray la Raja (Political Science), and Ludmila Tyler (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) in a moderated discussion about responsive teaching. Our discussion will encompass a variety of approaches for using student feedback and student work to actively modify…
July 2013 Moodle Updates
Greetings! As summer winds down and the Fall 2013 semester is set to begin, we have some Moodle news we’d like to share with you. In addition to the major changes from our May 2013 upgrade to Moodle 2.4, the July 2013 release of Moodle included the following updates (described in more detail below): A…
Do you have experience with or interest in teaching with Google Apps for Fall 2013? Join us for lunch!
On August 15, 2013, please join us at 12:00 p.m. for lunch and a discussion of Google Apps and online collaboration for course work. This lunch will be the first in an ongoing series of Community of Practice meetings. The goal is to bring together faculty and instructors who have past experience using and/or an…
Summer 2013 OIT Workshops & Events
Please join us this summer to learn about a variety of topics including: Basic Moodle start-up Using Moodle for course communications, quizzing, grading, and individual and team-based student work “Extreme” makeover for your syllabus and course materials Twitter basics and academic uses Multimedia project development for the classroom Using blogs as Web sites Creating and…