Audience: City University staff Moodle guidance The Educational Technology Team are continuing to update the Moodle guidance on www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff. We have marked guidance on new features with a NEW! to help you identify changes to functionality. This post highlights some of the key guidance that you might find useful in developing your modules in Moodle…Continue Reading Moodle 2.6 Guidance Continued
Audience: City University staff Moodle upgrade Information Services (IS) successfully upgraded Moodle on Saturday 12th July. Moodle guidance The Educational Technology Team are updating the Moodle guidance on www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff. We have marked guidance on new features with a NEW! to help you identify changes to functionality. This post highlights some of the key guidance that…Continue Reading Guidance to support Moodle 2.6 new features
Audience: City University staff. This blog post explores the improvements to the tools that we use to create content in Moodle. New Text editor Moodle 2.6 has a new text editor called Atto which has been designed specifically for Moodle. Atto has a simplified toolbar and is easier to use on mobile and tablet devices….Continue Reading Content Creation Improvements in Moodle 2.6
Audience: City University staff. This blog post explores the new features of the Quiz activity in Moodle. Quiz autosave There is a new auto-save facility on the Quiz which will be especially useful for students working on longer essay questions or when students experience a connection problem when taking a Quiz that would previously have…Continue Reading Quiz Improvements in Moodle 2.6
Audience: City University staff This blog post will look at some of the improvements in the Assignment and Turnitin activities in Moodle 2.6. Moodle Assignment Improvements Assignment resubmission If you require students to resubmit an assignment following a fail at first attempt you will be find the improvements in assignment resubmission useful. When grading the…Continue Reading Assignment Improvements in Moodle 2.6
Audience: City University London staff. Moodle upgrade Information Services (IS) will be upgrading Moodle on Saturday 12th July. Moodle will be unavailable from midnight until midday (12 hours), followed by a 12 hour ‘at-risk’ period. For further details about the upgrade and improvements, please see the FAQs: http://tiny.cc/moodleupgradestaff We will be writing a series of…Continue Reading Improvements to Moodle Look and Feel
A quick update on a project being developed between SHS and LeAD. CitySCaPE (City Simulated Community and Practice Experience) is the new simulated reality platform that is being designed to replace Shareville which is a simulated reality teaching package used to teach nursing students about learning disability. Shareville has been thoroughly evaluated and whilst it has many…Continue Reading CitySCaPE-
Educational Technology: In recent years, the range and scale of educational technologies available to City staff and students has changed radically. For example, Moodle offers a platform to provide course materials, activities and links to a host of tools, lecture capture can record live presentations, CampusPress is our blogging tool, Turnitin supports online assessment, staff…Continue Reading Introducing the Educational Technology Team
This post shares photos of the Educational Technology Team and how we work across three themes and undertake numerous projects. Educational Technology Team members are organised into the three themes of: Blended Learning Multimedia Learning Spaces This aligns with institutional priorities and enables the team to support, discover and promote a range of educational technology…Continue Reading Educational Technology Team Themes & Projects
Looking for creative teaching activities? Encourage students to work collaboratively and motivate each others learning, to clarify their understanding of course content and reflect on different peer perspectives. Take a look at the group work suggestions in our series of blog posts. We recommend booking City’s new Learning Spaces to run these activities. 1) Buzz…Continue Reading Group Work in City’s Learning Spaces – Buzz Groups and Snowballs