This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of the improvements to the Choice activity. The Choice activity allows students to select one option from a choice of multiple responses. This can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about…Continue Reading Improvements to Moodle Choice
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of the improvements to Moodle Forums. Forums are used in modules to encourage communication, collaboration and debate among students. You can now set up a single scale rating such as ‘Like’ to enable students…Continue Reading Forum Improvements in Moodle 2.8
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of improvements to Restrict access which can help you to personalise module content in Moodle. Restrict access also known as conditional release enables you to restrict the availability of any activity, resource or even…Continue Reading Improvements to personalising module content in Moodle 2.8
As an academic skills tutor, I’m often faced with a student clutching a set of assessment criteria containing the phrase “critically analyse”, or a synonym of that instruction. In my experience, many students understand the broad concept of critical analysis (e.g. being sceptical, not taking information on face value, evaluating evidence, etc), but have difficulty…Continue Reading Two meanings of “critically analyse”
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of the improvements that will help staff to design effective Moodle modules in Moodle 2.8. Improvements to editing interface Our Moodle Developers have put in place improvements to the editing interface for staff designing…Continue Reading Designing effective modules in Moodle 2.8
This post is part of a series of blog posts introducing what’s new in Moodle 2.8. This post provides an overview of assessment improvements in Moodle 2.8. Grader Report/Gradebook The Grader Report is easier to use across devices with its horizontal and vertical scroll. There is “single view” of any row or column which enables…Continue Reading Assessment Improvements in Moodle 2.8
After attending Dom Pates and Mo Pamplin’s workshop on ‘Extending teaching through multimedia’, where we discussed the potential for flipped learning, I came across this article: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/professor-and-students-share-reactions-to-the-flipped-classroom/ It includes an interview with a University Professor about the way he has ‘flipped’ the classroom and his students’ reactions to this. It presents some of the potential…Continue Reading Reactions to Flipped Learning
Information Services (IS) will be updating Moodle on Tuesday 30th June 2015 as part of the annual summer update. Moodle will be unavailable for 2 hours during the regular Tuesday ‘at risk’ period from 7am-9am as the update is performed, with a precautionary at-risk period for 48 hours. This will bring our Moodle up to…Continue Reading Moodle Update 2015 – What’s new?
To help save staff time and effort when setting up their modules for the new academic year, as well as improving the consistency of the learner experience, a new City Course Format has been developed. Seeking student feedback Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) and Education Research & Enterprise Services (ERES), facilitated by the expertise of…Continue Reading Development of a new City Course Format
This conference focused on internationalising the curriculum and how academic developers can support institutions and colleagues explore the positive benefits of this. This provided a good opportunity to explore a range of issues related to this increasingly topical issues. There were discussions about the curriculum and how to integrate an international perspective into this and…Continue Reading SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning and Assessment Conference 2015, Internationalising the Curriculum: What does this mean? How can we achieve it? 14th -15th May 2015, Marriott Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester