Moodle: Other New Features
As we’re upgrading from Moodle 3.0 to 3.4 this year, there are a range of minor enhancements which have been introduced over that time, here are a few that you might find interesting and...
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Moodle Monday’s – Annotate student assignments in Moodle
Moodle now has the facility to grade student assignments online using its built-in PDF annotator. This means that assignment files no longer need to be downloaded to be marked electronically. If a student has uploaded...
Moodle 2.7 – New Features
The Technology Enhanced Learning team and Information Learning Services have been working hard over the last couples of months to bring staff and students an early Christmas present. On the Saturday 13th December, we...
Assessment Guidelines: Videos for Students
Following a successful pilot last academic year, the Occupational Therapy programme team have again created video assignment guidelines for students on their module assessment. The videos provide a overview of the assessment criteria, the learning...
Creating Moodle Assignments
We recommend that you setup new assignments on your Moodle modules every academic year. In this post, we will explore the assignment options in Moodle. Moodle’s assignment tool has a variety of settings which help...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Skype
What is it? Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the internet. It was founded in August 2003 by two software developers Nicklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiu: it...
TEL Staff Development Review (Aug – Dec 2013)
With the end of the year upon us, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the TEL staff development that has taken place at YSJ, between August – December 2013....
TEL Breakfast Cafes
The next series of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Breakfast Cafes have been announced. Tea, Coffee and Croissants will be provided at the sessions. Moodle Assignments – bulk upload student grades and feedback. Tuesday 19th...
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...
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...