Moodle has been upgraded to version 3.4 and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes. These include a new plugin for plagiarism checking within Moodle Assignments, a new plugin for creating interactive content, and a range of other enhancements designed to improve course design and management. Managing …
Update: View the presentations from Gillian Taylor and Stevie Roberston which were recorded using Panopto. Date: Wednesday 29th August, Time: 1230-1600 (lunch included), Venue: Craiglockhart 2/05. You are warmly invited to this event to learn how TurningPoint classroom voting can increase participation in lectures and promote peer discussions. There will be …
Date: 18 April 2018 Time: 0930-1230 (Lunch included) Venue: Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart You are warmly invited to this event that will kick start an institutional conversation around what Learning Analytics means within the context of our own priorities and challenges. Come along and help us frame the pedagogical, technical and …
At the January Teaching Fellows conference Stevie Robertson, Kristen Marshall (Business School) and Stephen Bruce (Information Services) provided an overview of the three Active Learning Rooms at Craiglockhart, and initial observations on the impact they have had on student engagement and teaching approaches. These rooms have been converted to flexible learning …
A reoccurring concern from students is the volume of unwanted emails in their University inbox which makes it harder for them to notice important messages. Busy email inboxes is a fact of life for everyone and we all make use of Outlook ‘rules’ to manage incoming messages. This article describes …
A set of eSubmission Guidelines have been created to support staff with setting up, downloading and processing student coursework submissions. eSubmission refers to the process of students submitting their work online, and many modules already use this method successfully with Turnitin or Moodle Assignments. View the eSubmission page for an overview of …
If you have a number of quizzes and assignments then you may want to present students with grade totals that more accurately reflect the formative and summative activities in your module. This involves creating two grade categories which we will call summative and formative. You can create any categories you like as shown in …
If you have a spreadsheet of students groups then here’s a way you can upload them to Moodle and use the Group Choice activity to allow them to see which groups they are in. While there are several ways to automatically group your students, these are either based on the programme code/year, …
There have been some significant changes to Mahara after the recent upgrade and here are the most noticeable ones. 1. Menus for Content, Portfolio and Groups The navigation has changed to a more app-style similar to mobile devices, and so access to these menus is now via the hamburger icon …
Moodle was upgraded to version 3.2 during the summer and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes.