Category: Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Welcome back to Moodle Mondays for 2017! This Moodle Monday post also includes a case study from Dr Sam Yoward in Physiotherapy on the use of Moodle’s Workshop activity for peer assessment. The workshop...
Friday 20th January 2017 9:00am – 4:00pm Talking About Teaching is our annual event that gives staff the opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. The event will create interactive opportunities...
If you are teaching on modules starting in Semester 2, the instructions below will walk you through how to set these up. If this is the first iteration of the module this academic year,...
What is it? There are many audience participation apps and tools that can be used to encourage student participation and engagement, we have covered quite a few on this blog. This post is focusing...
The purpose of this research activity was to investigate students’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment at YSJ, and how we develop the capabilities which prepare students for living, learning and working in...
We recently ran one of our lunchtime ‘TEL’ me about… sessions covering using Turnitin to improve feedback for students. Staff at the university can choose whether to set assignments through the Moodle assignment or...
If you’re on the lookout for some professional development in 2017, there are a couple of MOOCs starting in January that may be of interest. MOOC means ‘Massive Online Open Course’. They are usually...
What is it? When I attended ALT-C in September I saw a demo of Meetoo, which had only recently moved into offering to Education, a tool that allows you to engage with your audience...
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an application that enables tutors to create interactive teaching resources that can be accessed by students on laptops & mobile devices (iOS and Android). Tutors can monitor and measure students’...
What is it? There are quite a few ways that you can make your Moodle course more interactive and encourage student engagement. One method is using the Quiz activity module, this allows you to design...