Posts by Laura Nicholson
A H5P Gift to You
December 12, 2023
A festive shout-out to Claire Storr for today’s advent contribution! Claire, our Placements Learning Technology Consultant, brings a touch of holiday magic by sharing her expertise in H5P. 🎄✨ Did you know that you can build small eLearning activities in Moodle with H5P? If not, now is the time to find out more. H5P allows …
New Features Coming Soon in Xerte
December 10, 2023
As we continue with our countdown to Christmas, we thank Fay Cross, our Multimedia Content Developer for authoring today’s post 🎅✨ Fay provides us with a sneak peek into Xerte, unwrapping new features coming in the New Year🎄🌟 Xerte will be upgraded to v3.12 early in the new year (date to be confirmed). Here’s a …
Moodle Choice for Polling
December 9, 2023
What is Moodle Choice? The choice activity enables an editing teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses: effectively to set up a simple Poll. Choice results may be published to students immediately after they have answered, after a certain date, or not at all. Results may be published with …
Five More Ways to Quiz with Moodle Quizzes
December 6, 2023
Moodle’s Quiz activity offers a variety of question types, ranging from multiple-choice questions to drag-and-drop or even calculated question types. Below are five examples of questions you could incorporate into your assessment strategy. 1. Matching A list of sub-questions is provided, along with a list of answers. The respondent must “match” the correct answers with …
The University of Nottingham’s FutureLearn partnership
December 5, 2023
In today’s festive advent surprise, Dr. Sarah Stubbings our Online Learning Manager, shares the opportunities awaiting you on FutureLearn! 🎄🌟 What is FutureLearn? The University of Nottingham has been a FutureLearn partner since 2013. FutureLearn is an online short course provider based in the UK, that partners with leading universities and cultural institutions in a …
Five Ways to Quiz with Moodle Quizzes
December 2, 2023
Moodle’s Quiz activity offers a variety of question types, ranging from multiple-choice questions to drag-and-drop or even calculated question types. Below are five examples of questions you could incorporate into your assessment strategy. 1. Calculated Instead of using static numerical questions with fixed values, you can use something called wildcards to represent different variables. …
Navigating the Future of Virtual Learning Environments
December 1, 2023
Tis the 1st of December, marking the start of our festive advent calendar on the Learning Technology blog! Every day throughout December we will bring you a new post on all types of learning technology, leading right up to December 24th where the last door will open to reveal… well, you’ll have to wait and …
Students: How to download Turnitin and Moodle assignment feedback
November 27, 2023
The University recommends that all students download their assignment feedback as soon as it’s available. As you advance in your academic journey and progress through different modules, access to your feedback from previous modules may be restricted. Therefore, it’s crucial to save and download your feedback now while it’s accessible, as we often receive requests …
Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty Takeover: Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Escape Rooms
November 24, 2023
Expanding Horizons: Opportunities for Teaching and Learning with HoloLens 2 Throughout the 2023-4 academic year, we are running a new feature on the LT blog, a Faculty Takeover month! Each month (excluding December), we will feature posts from a different faculty at the University. Every Friday, posts will highlight interesting work and ideas related to …
Moodle is being upgraded: Roadshow and drop-ins for staff and students
November 20, 2023
Moodle will be upgraded to version 4.1 between 9.30am on Monday 18th December and midday on Tuesday 19th December 2023 This new version of Moodle brings with it lots of improvements to the layout of the ‘Dashboard’ and ‘My Modules’ pages when you first login, and to your module site pages. The biggest improvement in …
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