Visualising grades: An interesting idea from the Globe and Mail
Posted: June 29, 2012 Filed under: Notes, Reading, Teaching, Universities | Tags: digital pedagogy, learning management systems, pedagogy, testing 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.
How to “clone” a test in Moodle 2.0
Posted: March 27, 2011 Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: backups, Computers, digital humanities, digital pedagogy, learning management systems, lms, Moodle, Teaching, Tips 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 Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: Computers, digital humanities, digital pedagogy, learning management systems, lms, Moodle, Teaching, testing, Tips 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 Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: blackboard, Computers, digital humanities, digital pedagogy, formats, learning management systems, lms, Moodle, Teaching, testing, Tips, WebCT 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 Filed under: Applications, Moodle, Research, Teaching, Technical Notes | Tags: Computers, digital humanities, digital pedagogy, learning management systems, lms, Moodle, Teaching, testing, Tips Leave a comment »Here are some tips for the composition of Multiple Choice Questions in Moodle.
