Do you use Moodle? Are you a member of staff or a student at City? Do you have feedback? If you can answer ‘yes’ to these three questions, then please take part in one of the Focus Groups or User Evaluation session we are running in November – sign up for a session. Staff in…Continue Reading Help us Improve Moodle
Welcome to the third blog post in my series on enhancements to the video and audio tools available to staff and students at City, University of London. In this post I will be discussing some of the general feature enhancements that have been brought to Mediaspace, and some suggestions for how they can be used….Continue Reading Video for learning: Mediaspace enhancements
In this series of blog posts I am looking through the enhancements to Mediaspace, City’s online platform for creating, sharing and publishing educational video, which have been implemented this summer. One of the chief enhancements is the launch of the Video Quiz, a completely new tool in Mediaspace, which is accessble either through mediaspace.city.ac.uk or…Continue Reading Video for learning: interactivity
The Educational Technology Team are passionate about helping staff and students at City get the most out of tools for teaching and learning. In particular, this summer we have been working hard to upgrade and improve the Mediaspace platform which allows staff and students to create, publish and share educational video and multimedia. In a…Continue Reading Video for learning: new tools for staff
Have you noticed an increase in your email notifications since the move to Moodle 3? Notifications are being emailed to staff with category/module level roles on Moodle when students submit Turnitin assignments. Please follow our guidance note to switch off these notifications. A number of staff have reported problems in opening Turnitin Submission Inboxes using…Continue Reading Turnitin in Moodle 3
This post highlights the development work from our colleagues in Education Research & Enterprise Services (ERES) to improve the Text Editor in Moodle 3. If you want to highlight key information for students on a module page you can choose one of the two new City styles – Important and To do. These styles work…Continue Reading Moodle Text Editor Improvements
Moodle 3 is now live. For an overview of the timelines and processes for the development of Moodle modules for the new academic year, review the overview of 16/17 module set-up on Moodle guide. Guidance For information on what’s new in Moodle 3, you can review our blog posts. Guidance on Moodle features, new and…Continue Reading Moodle 3 Live
In my last post, I highlighted new functionality to support group work in Moodle. This post looks at how to release content to specific groups of students. While this isn’t a new feature of Moodle 3, it is a feature that changed last year and is useful to highlight again as we move to Moodle…Continue Reading Release Moodle Content to Groups of Students
One of the strengths of Moodle is the potential for student interaction, especially when activities are used in combination with Moodle’s group functionality. This post explores two new features in Moodle 3 to support group work – a bulk enrolments plugin and post a copy to all groups functionality in Forums. 1. Quickly add students…Continue Reading Supporting Group Work in Moodle
Lecturers start designing their Moodle modules for the new academic year by rolling over content from the previous academic year. This saves a lot of time as content doesn’t need to be uploaded to Moodle each year. This post outlines how to give your module a spring clean post-rollover. It highlights two new features that…Continue Reading Spring clean your Moodle Modules