A pile of Advent ‘gifts’: Advent Calendar #13
December 13, 2022
A reminder of some of the ‘gifts’ that were on offer last year in our 2021 Advent Calendar. If you missed out – or just forgot about them, you may find just what you need this year! Games The Learning Technologies Crossword A Xerte Toolkits-based game to play at Christmas Christmas Mix and Match: memory …
Quiz review options in Moodle: Advent Calendar #9
December 9, 2022
Here are five top tips for getting the review settings right in Moodle Quizzes to allow your students to review and amend their answers, or not, depending on your needs. If you’d like your students to be able to review their answers once they’ve submitted the quiz and be able to amend them before the …
Timed document release in Moodle: Advent Calendar #7
December 7, 2022
Here’s a new feature in Moodle you might not have noticed, Timed Document Release. This resource was developed in direct response to the needs of students during take-home online exams. It allows anyone with an Editing Teacher role in Moodle to make a document (or set of documents) available to students, on or after a …
Easily transferring your Teams recordings into Echo360 Engage: Advent Calendar #6
December 6, 2022
Following on from yesterday’s post about Echo360 Engage, today Terry Willmer, Echo360 guru, tells us how to make your Teams recordings available to your students through Echo360 Engage. Terry shows how to easily copy recordings from a Teams folder to your personal OneDrive, and how to upload videos from your Recordings folder (or any other …
Timed Moodle Forum posts: Advent Calendar #4
December 4, 2022
Did you know that there’s a feature in Moodle forums that allows you to set a time that a post will be released? This is really handy for limited-time semi-synchronous discussions, or for scheduling Announcements at a particular time and/or date later on, so that you don’t have to log into Moodle at that particular …
The Moodle Archive: What happens to old modules in Moodle?
November 21, 2022
You may be surprised to hear that modules that have been offered to students using Moodle are all kept. This means that we have “snapshot” copies of every module ever taught from when we first started using Moodle in 2011. This is an amazing resource of over 100,000 archived modules. In October we archived (most …
Using video for formative assessment
November 16, 2022
We have been seeing an increasing number of video assignments being used with students. Having students submit video has a number of advantages including: Can be used in the context of peer review. May be a more authentic method of assessment. Can be included in a career-facing e-portfolio. Many students really enjoy creating videos. Video …
Training and drop-in sessions including online marking and face-to-face drop-in
November 8, 2022
Learn something new, or come for a refresher – we’ve got lots of training courses on offer this autumn. They’re aimed to provide you with the support you need at the right time of year. As assessment season hots up (unlike the real season…) there’s new training in marking online. These have been organised with …
Using images in teaching
October 10, 2022
We’ve been asked recently about good practice in using images in teaching. Which can you use, how do you prepare them and how do you use them? Copyright Images must all be checked for copyright. Provide your own images (take pictures) or use images that have a Creative Commons licence (include the correct attribution somewhere). The …
Top ten tips for staff before you make your module visible to students
September 21, 2022
There’s a lot to do at the start of session. So here are the top ten things to do with your Moodle module before the students get access: Can you see, in Moodle, the module you’re teaching? The 22-23 modules are all ready and waiting, visible to staff but possibly not yet to students. If …
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