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 …
An Introduction to Exams in ExamSys
December 11, 2023
ExamSys is the Online assessment for informal formative self-assessment quizzes to formal summative exams at the University of Nottingham. Below we have included an overview of the features of ExamSys and how you can use it to run assessments for your students. What you can do in ExamSys: Assessment papers can be created using any …
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 …
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. …
Moodle Assignments: Frequently Asked Questions
November 6, 2023
This week, we’ve chosen to cover a quick selection of frequently asked questions regarding Moodle assignments. This represents just a glimpse of the diverse range of inquiries we receive, covering topics from initial setup to more technical aspects such as configuring groups and groupings. If you require assistance with any of the topics discussed, or …
Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty Takeover: Ten Top Tips for Moodle
November 3, 2023
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 technology in teaching and learning and showcase unique projects from …
Mahara
October 2, 2023
Author: Claire Storr You might be asking, what is Mahara? If you are, Mahara is the University’s ePortfolio platform and can be accessed via mahara.nottingham.ac.uk. To login, use your University of Nottingham username and password. There is no need to request an account. It will create one for you when you log in for the …
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