As you think about the design of your Moodle modules for the new academic year, this blog post provides some tips to maximise the City Course Format. All taught Moodle modules at City are created with the City Course Format to provide students with: a consistent layout for Moodle modules across a programme; quick access…Continue Reading Moodle 3.2: Maximise the City Course Format
Learning on a mobile device is learner-friendly due to the flexibility and convenience of accessing content from anywhere at any time. Our Moodle website is responsive (designed to work across all devices without the need for a separate mobile app). This post looks at some strategies you can use when designing the content in your Moodle…Continue Reading Top 5 tips for Moodle mobile design
The second Bring your Own Lunch Webinar took place on 19th July, with Professor Clive Holtham and Dr Martin Rich, discussing how to run high impact webinars using Adobe Connect, which you could say, is very meta, a webinar about webinars! Watch the webinar [approximately 60 mins] or take a look at the slides bellow…Continue Reading High Impact Webinars using Adobe Connect – Bring Your Own Lunch July 2017
Moodle has a special Pilot role that teaching staff can request. This role provides the same permissions as the Lecturer role in Moodle, but you also get access to some new features which are outlined below. If you would like to try out any of these features; please log a request on ServiceNow to request access to…Continue Reading Moodle 3.2 Pilot role
It has been a year since the City Wide Simulated Practice showcase started, by Neal Sumner (LEaD) and Janet Hunter (School of Health Sciences). Since then, we have had termly meetings and an ever expanding selection of examples of simulation. This month, saw the summer 2017 gathering of the group on 11th July, where we…Continue Reading Simulated Practice Showcase – July 2017 Report
Back in March we hinted that Turnitin will have a new look and feel from late July, and this morning we switched to the new Turnitin Feedback Studio. You will not notice any changes to the process of accessing and setting up Turnitin assignments from Moodle, but there are several improvements to the way you…Continue Reading Turnitin Feedback Studio is here!
How many students do you know who say something like this after submitting an assignment? How many say the same- but present tense, before submitting? The work we do in Student Counselling and Mental Health Service (SCMHS) and Neurodiversity often has to deal with statements like Mr Bowie’s as our starting point. I have been…Continue Reading Still don’t know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild… (Bowie, 1971)
There are several ways to mark and provide feedback on Moodle. In this blog post I will focus on rubrics as a method in which this is possible. A rubric for assessment, usually in the form of a matrix or grid, is a feedback tool used to interpret and grade students’ work against criteria and…Continue Reading Moodle3.2: Rubrics as a method of providing feedback using Moodle Assignment
The HEA conference, entitled ‘generation TEF’ was held from 4th – 6th July at the University of Manchester. See the full programme [PDF] of the variety of speakers, workshops, talks etc that were covered during the three days. The second day had presentations on institutional issues and priorities for higher education institutions. I attended as both a…Continue Reading HEA Conference – Generation TEF, 5th July – Institutional Strategies and Priorities Day
Last week saw the monthly meeting of the LEaD Writing Group. This is a brief account of the proceedings and an invitation to join us. As usual, we started with a quick writing activity to introduce an exercise that participants can use to develop their own or their students’ writing skills. This month’s exercise was called…Continue Reading LEaD Writing Group – “I lay awake, unable to sleep, and all because…”