As part of our series on what’s new in Moodle 3.4, this post highlights the two improvements to assessment in Moodle. Accepted File Types Last year, Lecturers and Course Officers could restrict the assignment file types accepted by Moodle assignments. However, the accepted file types had to be input manually. In Moodle 3.4, you will…Continue Reading Module 3.4: Online Assessment
Enrolment and Participation In Moodle 3.4, Enrolment and Participant screens have been combined to provide a unified screen for user management. Course Officers will be able to manage and enrol students from one screen, making this a much smoother and streamlined process. From this screen, Course Officers will also be able to bulk delete enrolments…Continue Reading Moodle 3.4: Module Administration
This year MoodleMoot took place in Glasgow. MoodleMoot is an annual event that gathers educators, technologists, developers from across Europe showcasing innovation, best practices, new ideas based around teaching with Moodle. In this blog post, I’ll share few trends and things that I learned by attending this event. This year’s conference focused on these…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2018
Throughout 2017, the Educational Technology Team in the School of Arts and Social Sciences collected a number of case studies highlighting the efforts of Lecturers to make their teaching and learning more engaging and pedagogically sound with the use of educational technologies. One of these case studies looked at the work of an International Politics…Continue Reading School of Arts and Social Sciences – Video Case Studies
This summer, the Peer Assessment Tool, created by colleagues at Cass Business School and available for all City’s academic staff to use on Moodle, was further developed to include some great new features. The Peer Assessment activity: Allows students to participate in the assessment process and encourages engagement with their own learning. Promotes fairness in…Continue Reading Peer Assessment Tool on Moodle
November is a busy month for Turnitin assignment submissions. We have 69 assignments due this month. This post provides some tips to help students who are submitting to Turnitin. A PDF of the Turnitin Checklist is also available for download. Featured image by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash…Continue Reading Turnitin Checklist
Assignment activity on Moodle starts to get busy from next week. This post provides a checklist to help you avoid the most common issues related to the Moodle assignment activity. Moodle Assignment Checklist Before students submit, double-check that your assignment settings are correct. The table below provides a checklist to help you avoid the most…Continue Reading Moodle Assignment Checklist
Welcome to a new Academic Year! Starting university it’s always an exciting experience, but can be overwhelming for some. As a student you get introduced to so many new people, places, ideas and systems. Apart from attending lectures, browsing in the library, stopping off at the student canteen and trying to find your way around Northampton Square you are also introduced to our Online Learning Environment- Moodle. This year to help our…Continue Reading “Learning with Moodle”- A new student induction module
A guest post by Snigdha Nag, Senior Lecturer at the City Law School based on the Bring Your Own Lunch (#BYOL) Webinar in September 2017, organised by LEaD. If like to present the next one in November or write a blog post for us, then contact us. The Slides are below, for more detail, please…Continue Reading How to get more out of Moodle – Bring Your Own Lunch Webinar September 2017
Students from across the University provided feedback during usability sessions in Term 1. This has influenced the development of Moodle 3.2. So as a student, what can you expect in Moodle 3.2? We have concentrated on improving functionality and features that you use on a regular basis. New Grades & feedback report During our usability…Continue Reading What’s new in Moodle 3.2 for students?