This blog post is designed to compliment the session – “Inspiring Practice at your Institution”, at the Changing the Learning Landscape event in London on 26th November 2013 in London. On the day a range…
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Moodle video: Analytics steal the show
Using online videos for education is fast becoming one of the ways in which lecturers can really share the outside world with students or demonstrate challenging concepts. Video management and publishing are therefore, becoming a…
Service Now: New Vehicle for Educational Technology queries
What’s happening about educational technology support? We are in a period of transition where a restructure has taken place and a new model of educational technology support is being worked on. You may hear more…
SLE Achievements 2012-13
An enormous number of projects have been completed during the academic year 2012-13. Strategic Learning Environment projects and work have been underpinned by the Educational Technology Community, a network of educational technology and other professional…
Moodle 2: Marking Strategies
There are several ways to mark on moodle. In this blog I will list three ways in which this is possible. Mark Moodle Assignments Using a Marking Record A marking record is very similar to…
Moodle 2: Ideas for Innovative Assignments
Our educational technology team have identified a number of tools that can be used to help build innovative assessments in your modules. These can be seen in the diagram below. For more ideas, visit our…
Understanding formative and summative assessments
What are formative and summative assessments? As per wikipedia – Formative assessment or diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify…
Moodle 2: Embedding twitter(social media) into your module
What are the benefits of using social media for students? Embedding social media into modules can make your students want to: engage with your module much more be able to easily network with their peers…
Moodle 2: How to make personal tutorial appointments with your students
Moodle 2 has an integrated system called the Scheduler which can help you set up one-to-one appointments with your students, but I am told you can also set up group appointments if you have created groups…
Moodle 2: Quizzing your students
Moodle offers lots of quiz questions and the list is endless: Algebra – students enter an algebraic formula for their answer. Calculated – Students enter values calculated using the given values. Values are randomly selected…