Blogging in Moodle

Posted: September 4, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Moodle, Teaching | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment »

In many of my classes, I ask students to blog within Moodle. Blogs within Moodle are visible to the whole community. It is also possible, using an RSS feed, to broadcast your blog outside Moodle.

There are two parts to using blogs in Moodle: composing blogs and reading the entries of others.

Managing class webpages and mailing lists at the University of Lethbridge

Posted: August 26, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Computers, Methodology | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment »

For years, every class at the University of Lethbridge has been given webspace and a mailing list. While the mailing list is well-known to instructors (it is the list “XXXXNNNNx@uleth.ca” that you use to make announcements to the class as a whole), the webspace is far less well known. This document (mostly a reminder to myself) shows you how you can use online tools to manage this.

How to add a twitter feed to Moodle

Posted: September 12, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment »

Like many Digital Humanists, I use twitter a lot: for communicating with colleagues, the general public, and my students. Like most users of twitter (certainly most academics, I suspect), my most common type of tweet is probably one in which I share a resource I have come across—a book, article, website, project, etc. Since I use our university’s Moodle installation to store resources for my students, it would be quite useful to be able to capture a Twitter feed inside our Moodle class space. This post shows how to do it.

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English 1900j (Fall 2012): Blogs

Posted: September 4, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

In this course you are expected to maintain a blog. Postings will be required from you most weeks. And every so often you are asked to review and/or comment on your blog postings and those of your class mates.

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Blogs, Wikis, and LMSs. Some notes on my practice

Posted: August 25, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Classroom practice, Digital Humanities, Digital pedagogy, Essays, General, Moodle, Teaching, technology | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Ryan Cordell and I had been exchanging tweets on the use of blogs, wikis, and the like in class. Since 140 characters is good for many things, but not this, I promised him I’d write up a quick description of the practice I’ve developed over the last few years.

The context for this is the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS), which I’ve been using in its 1.x and 2.x versions. There’s no reason why you couldn’t do this with loose wiki, blogging, and microblogging systems. But I’m still reluctant to require students to release their school work publicly.

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Visualising grades: An interesting idea from the Globe and Mail

Posted: June 29, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Notes, Reading, Teaching, Universities | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

The Globe and Mail ran what looked like a genre piece this morning about badly-written and hard-to-understand report cards–an annual rite it seems to me. But it ended with a side bar that I found quite thought-provoking: what a better-designed report card might look like:

The Globe and Mail’s proposal for a more visual report card.

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How to “clone” a test in Moodle 2.0

Posted: March 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Here’s how to clone a test in Moodle 2.0 (i.e. make an exact copy so that both appear in the course; this is useful for making practice tests or copying a basic test format so that it can be reused later in the course)

Organising Quizzes in Moodle 2.0

Posted: March 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Moodle 2.0 allows designers to divide questions into pages. But while this introduces great flexibility, it can be quite a cumbersome system to use at first. Here’s a method for making it more efficient.

Differences between Moodle and Blackboard/WebCT short answer questions

Posted: March 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

There is an important difference between Moodle and Blackboard (WebCT) short answer questions that instructors should be aware of, namely that Moodle short answer questions allow only one answer field.

Multiple Choice Questions in Moodle

Posted: March 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Here are some tips for the composition of Multiple Choice Questions in Moodle.

How to build a randomised essay/translation question in Moodle 2.0

Posted: March 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes, Tutorials | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment » In my courses I often use a question of the following format:
  1. Common introduction
  2. Two or more sample passages or questions requiring an essay response
  3. A common form field for the answer to the student’s choice from #2.
The point of this format is to provide the student with a choice of topics. If students all write their essays or translations at the same time, you can build your choice of topics by hand and write them into a single question. The challenge comes if you want to be able to allow your students to write the test asynchronously, as is common with Learning Management Software. In such cases you want to be able to draw your essay topics or translation passages randomly from a test bank. Read the rest of this entry »

Manual Grading of All Questions in Moodle 2.0

Posted: March 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes, Tutorials | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment » Manually grading in Moodle 2.0 seems to be causing many faculty members at the U of L trouble. Here’s how to do it. Read the rest of this entry »

How to setup a signup sheet in Moodle

Posted: March 15, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes, Tutorials | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment » You can create a signup sheet for Moodle using the “Choice” activity. Read the rest of this entry »

How to do stuff in Moodle

Posted: March 15, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment »

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Byte me: Technological Education and the Humanities

Posted: December 20, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Digital Humanities, Essays, Research, Reviews, Teaching | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment » I recently had a discussion with the head of a humanities organisation who wanted to move a website. The website was written using Coldfusion, a proprietary suite of server-based software that is used by developers for writing and publishing interactive web sites (Adobe nd). After some discussion of the pros and cons of moving the site, we turned to the question of the software.
Head of Humanities Organisation: We’d also like to change the software. Me: I’m not sure that is wise unless you really have to: it will mean hiring somebody to port everything and you are likely to introduce new problems. Head of Humanities Organisation: But I don’t have Coldfusion on my computer. Me: Coldfusion is software that runs on a server. You don’t need it on your computer. You just need it on the server. Your techies handle that. Head of Humanities Organisation: Yes, but I use a Mac.
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