Audience: City University London Staff As part of the annual update for Moodle, we would like build on the work undertaken to develop the City Course Format. We will be running user evaluation with academic and course office staff looking at the tasks that staff have to undertake to prepare their modules for the start…Continue Reading Help us Improve Moodle
Audience: City University staff A new role is available in Moodle. The Pilot role provides the same permissions as the Lecturer role in Moodle, but you also get access to additional features. Features available for the Pilot role The features that are available for the Pilot role are outlined below. Plugin Plugin functionality Information Badges…Continue Reading Extending Moodle functionality with the Pilot role
Audience: City University Staff The new City Course Format was designed to provide students with an overview of module content, easy access to key contacts and quicklinks to important links and activities. This blog post outlines how to maxmimise your Moodle modules by using the City Course Format features. Overview of module content The City…Continue Reading Maximising your Moodle Modules with City Course Format
Audience: City University London staff. A new Course Officer role is now available in Moodle. This role will make it easier to indicate the key module contacts to students. Staff who are enrolled as Course Officers on a module will appear in the link to Course Officers from the Module Dashboard which is available on…Continue Reading New Course Officer Role in Moodle
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 improved integration between Reading Lists Online and Moodle. Your Moodle modules are organised in sections that are structured in topics or by week to provide relevant resources and activities to students at…Continue Reading Moodle 2.8 and improved integration with Reading Lists Online
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 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
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?