Blogs, Wikis, and LMSs. Some notes on my practice
Posted: August 25, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Classroom practice, Digital Humanities, Digital pedagogy, Essays, General, Moodle, Teaching, technology | Tags: blogs, digital pedagogy, lms, students, techniques, Tips, wikis 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.
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.
