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 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
This year, the Association of Law Teachers (ALT) had it 50th Annual Conference held at Cardiff. There were 2 keynotes, 6 parallel sessions comprising of 38 presentations and 2 discussions, and a Teaching Law with Technology Showcase. Participants are mostly law teachers and librarians from both higher and further education. This was my first ALT…Continue Reading The Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference
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
I was fortunate to be able to attend this year’s Moodlemoot, hosted by Dublin City University (DCU) on 11th-14th May 2015. As an Educational Technologist supporting blended learning, Moodle plays a big role in my working life, and this was an interesting and valuable opportunity to spend time with other Moodle users, including developers, educators,…Continue Reading Moodlemoot 2015, a conference about Moodle!
The Educational Technology Team supported two small-scale projects around dissertation support and supervision. We worked with staff to provide advice and guidance on how educational technology can be used to support students undertaking a dissertation. We have drawn on lessons learned from the small-scale projects to develop a resource for staff to who are looking…Continue Reading Supporting dissertation students online
Blended learning is increasing in popularity as an effective way to meet diverse learner requirements and offer increased flexibility for students through the thoughtful integration of resources and activities in an online environment with face-to-face teaching. Alammary et al. (2014, p.440) in their paper on blended learning in higher education found that “[t]he question now…Continue Reading Supporting your blended learning approach
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