A-Z Tools & Technologies: Jorum
What is Jorum? Jorum is the UK’s national digital repository for Open Educational Resources (OERs) or in layman’s terms, it’s a place where you can get loads of free teaching resources. How does it...
Author: m.dransfield
Higher York e-Learning Network, Sept 2013
A couple of weeks ago YSJ hosted a meeting for members of the Higher York e-Learning Network. The network represents a group of Learning Technologists from across the York area but we were excited to...
A new academic year, a new Moodle. Yippee!
Next week, along with our hard-working colleagues in ILS, we’ll be launching the new version of Moodle – version 2.5. We’ve been working hard in the background to plan the upgrade, to make sure that we have lots...
Experiences of Moodle in Zambia, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be involved in a trip to Zambia in central Africa. This was my second and final visit as part of a DelPHE and British...
WIDGaT – widget design authoring
Yesterday Phil and I attended a session at the HEA in York about the WIDGaT tool; it’s a web-based application which lets anyone create ‘widgets’ and share them in a variety of ways. A...
Higher York e-Learning Conference – 4th June 2013
The third Higher York e-Learning conference which is to be held on 4th June 2013 at York St John University has just announced its call for papers. See details below: The call for contributions is open! The...
Moodle shortcuts & module handbooks
The Business School has adopted a new approach to module handbooks in Moodle. They have a generic handbook which contains information about plagiarism, appeals, assignment formats etc; this information applies to all modules across...
UCISA 2012 Survey of TEL: case studies
During summer 2012 I was intereviewd by Dr Richard Walker, VLE Services Manager at University of York. Richard is an active member of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association and conducts the annual...
Tracking a tutor’s time spent online
The YSJ work planning model (WPM) was introduced in September 2011. It is a management tool which aims to provide a structure for the allocation of time for an academic’s workload. Some academics feel that...
Offline marking using the assignment tool
Just revisiting the issue of bulk upload in Moodle. Daniel and I were discussing it and I was showing him the tracker link which had used the phrase Offline marking. I had a minor...