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 …
We Are Learning Technology
December 8, 2023
The Learning Technologies Section supports students and staff with their use of learning technologies, as well as maintaining, developing and upgrading core University teaching and learning systems. We are a team of professionals, working at the crossroads of education, technology and creative media. Our role is to work with you as you create teaching resources, either on …
The Digital Accessibility Journey
December 7, 2023
In the post below, Julian Tenney, Learning Content Team Leader, reflects on the journey of Digital Accessibility at the University of Nottingham over the past year. Digital accessibility has been a major focus for the University this year, and as the festive season rolls in, it’s a good time to reflect on our achievements. We …
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 …
Dropboxes and Quizzes for Assessment in Moodle 4.1
December 4, 2023
In this post, we outline the process of creating Moodle Dropboxes and Quizzes in your module for formative or summative student assessment. A Moodle Assignment (also called a Moodle Dropbox) is an activity requiring students to either upload files or text, or that relates to an offline or other activity that needs to be marked. …
Assessments, Marking and Feedback in TurnItIn
December 3, 2023
In this post, we outline the process of creating Turnitin assessments within your Moodle site and some tips for approaching marking and feedback on Turnitin. Before you start using Turnitin for the first time, you should read the guidance below to ensure you are aware of best practice for using the features of Turnitin within …
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 …
Learning Technology new SharePoint site: Advent Calendar #24
December 24, 2022
Learning Technology have created a new SharePoint site. It is designed to help staff get support quickly, find training sessions to book onto, and read case studies for inspiration. It’s very early days as yet, and content hasn’t yet been migrated from Moodle, other Sharepoint sites and Workspace (which eventually it will replace). Now is …
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