An industry standard drop-down User menu has been introduced in Moodle 3, as part of Moodle’s continuing work on improving navigation. The User menu is located on the far right of the top navigation bar in Moodle and gives you access to your Profile and Grader reports for modules that you are teaching on. You…Continue Reading Improving Moodle’s Navigation
This summer, City’s online platform for educational video – Kaltura Mediaspace – will be getting an update to introduce new features to make video more interactive and more accessible. As part of this update, the Kaltura tools in Moodle will be upgraded on Tuesday 14th June. This upgrade brings the Video Resource and Video Assignment…Continue Reading Planned upgrade to Kaltura Mediaspace
Assessment and feedback is at the heart of the student experience and there are a number of improvements in Moodle 3 to support online assessment. Activity Results block As well as displaying Quiz results in competitive league tables, a new Activity Results block can display scores from any graded or rated activity on your module…Continue Reading Assessment Improvements in Moodle 3
Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) and Education Research & Enterprise Services (ERES), facilitated by the expertise of staff at the City Interaction Lab ran a staff user evaluation to feed into developments for Moodle 3. The aim of our user evaluation was to make it easier for staff to complete the tasks required to update…Continue Reading Moodle 3 User Evaluation
Continuing my series on 5 things to Do with…, this article focuses on 5 Things to do with your Moodle module. These tips have been devised with the help of Neal Sumner, Senior Lecturer in Academic Development, LEaD and in consultation with the Midwifery department in the School of Health Sciences (written by former Senior…Continue Reading 5 Things to Do with your Moodle Module
Moodle will be updated to version 3 on 28th June during the 7-9am maintenance window. Moodle 3 Developments The focus of this year’s update has been on minor improvements to streamline processes around set up of Moodle modules for the start of year. Feeding into this are: Recommendations from the annual Moodle user evaluation conducted…Continue Reading Moodle 3 Update 28 June 2016
One of the great improvements in the Moodle upgrade at the beginning of this academic year is the extended options available for the conditional release of learning materials and activities to students. In previous versions of Moodle, resources could only be restricted though the set-up of grouping(s). In the current version of Moodle, you can…Continue Reading Use of Moodle Restrict Access in Bar Professional Training Course modules
Moodle quizzes can be used for different purposes. They can help to build students’ confidence by providing opportunities for them to consolidate their learning, and offering instant personalised feedback. Lecturers can also benefit from using quizzes to identify parts of the curriculum that students are struggling with, and to gather feedback about content covered in…Continue Reading Create Moodle Quiz questions from a TeX file
Moodle Forums are a great way to encourage communication, collaboration and debate among students and are very easy to set up. To ensure that module participants (staff and students) are kept informed of Forum posts via email, lecturers need to select a suitable subscription mode when setting up a Forum. The subscription modes manage if…Continue Reading Moodle Forum Subscriptions
Audience: City University London staff. The Advice on Module Page (AMP) is a personalised online service that provides recommendations to support staff in designing more effective and engaging Moodle modules. Requesting the AMP service You can request an AMP via ServiceNow. Select Request an IT Service or Item from the ServiceNow homepage. From…Continue Reading AMP your Moodle modules