Moodle Monday: Course Format
Today’s Moodle Monday is focusing on Course Format, course format refers to the layout of a Moodle course. Last month there were a few updates to Moodle (that were summarised in this blog post)...
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Learn with Lynda: Learning Audacity
Learn with Lynda is back for the new academic year and today we’re putting the spotlight on Learning Audacity. This course is presented by Garrick Chow and lasts 1h 53m. Audacity is a free,...
Moodle Monday: Creating Interactive Content with H5P
YSJU have recently added a new activity plugin on Moodle called H5P. But what is H5P and what can it do? H5P is a free online tool that allows you to create your own...
Digital Accessibility & Inclusive Learning and Teaching MOOCs
If you’re on the lookout for some professional development opportunities in 2017-18, there are a couple of MOOCs starting soon that may be of interest! Use of technology to enhance learning, teaching and assessment...
EdTech fallacies, Kevin Costner and ALT-C
Anybody that was following the #altc hashtag a couple of weeks ago may have noticed some strange tweets from me and others talking about Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner and random connections to learning...
Moodle Monday: Tracking Student Engagement and Progress
Moodle offers a variety of options for enhancing student engagement & tracking progress, including Moodle Reports, Activity Completion, Conditional Activities, Progress Bar, Open Badges, Engagement Analytics and Course Dedication. Moodle Reports Moodle contains four...
Students as Researchers Scheme: Student Digital Experience Tracker 2017-18
The Academic Development Directorate invites York St John undergraduate students to apply to undertake paid work with academic staff on various research activities across the University. This is a fantastic opportunity to help you develop your...
What’s New in Moodle for 2017/18?
Instead of upgrading the version of Moodle that we’re using for this academic year, we decided to install some additional plugins to give staff some extra tools and functionality to play with. We’ll be...
Welcome Back to Learn with Lynda!
York St John University have had a subscription to Lynda.com for about two years and I have found it incredibly useful, so if you haven’t heard of this resource from ILS (or even if...
Turnitin: Understanding the Similarity Report
Turnitin does not check for plagiarism in a piece of work. Instead, it will check a student’s work against their database, and if there are instances where a student’s writing is similar to, or matches against,...