Moodle: Importing Course Content
Once you have created your new modules for the 2014/15 academic year, your attention will turn to creating course content. Moodle allows you to import course content from other courses where you have editing...
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Creating Moodle Courses for 2014/15
It’s that time of year again when you can start creating your Moodle courses for the next academic year, 2014/15. Why not get ahead of the game and create the module for the 2014/15...
Learning at Work Week: Pinterest
What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. Users can browse other pinboards for images, ‘re-pin’ images...
Learning at Work Week: SlideShare
What is SlideShare? SlideShare is the world’s largest online community for sharing and discovering presentations with over 60+ millions users and 15+ million presentations. SlideShare supports the following presentation/document formats: PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenDocument, Word...
Learning at Work Week: LinkedIn
What is LinkedIn? LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network – with over 300m users! Individuals use LinkedIn for professional networking, connecting, and job searching – LinkedIn members can search for jobs, join groups, research...
Learning at Work Week: WordPress
What is WordPress? WordPress is an online platform that allows you to (individually or collaboratively) create websites and blogs. It’s free to use and all YSJ staff and students have the ability to create their...
Learning at Work Week: Twitter
Ever wondered if Twitter might be a useful tool for enhancing your teaching & learning, or developing your personal learning network? Not sure how to get started, or how it all works? Twitter is...
Designing Active Learning in Moodle
One of the really interesting presentations from MoodleMoot Edinburgh 2014 was ‘Designing Active Learning in Moodle – a preview of the Learning Designer tools’ by Eileen Kennedy & Dionisis Dimakopoulos. The Learning Designer suite of...
Moodle: Submitting an Assignment
It’s that time of year again – assessment time – so we thought we’d share a few bite-sized posts on the topic… Submitting an Assignment York St John University has adopted electronic assignment submission,...
What is a Personal Learning Network/Environment?
In preparation for Learning at Work Week (19th-25th May), and the TEL team sharing a series of blog posts on our favourite technology for engaging with our Personal Learning Network, so we thought it...