Moodle is our course management system (also called a Learning Management System or LMS) here at Bucknell.
How-Tos
Moodle Tools for Advising Week
As part of our synchronization with Banner, we create a "Faculty Advisor" Moodle course for every faculty member with advisees, and we automatically add advisees to that course as "enrolled students." You can find a link to that course byRead More
Taking Attendance in Moodle
A famous celebrity may have said that “80 percent of life is showing up,” but my guess is that we want our students to show up in our courses more than 80 percent of the time, and we want toRead More
Creating a Turnitin Assignment in Moodle
Our Preventing Academic Irresponsibility page, part of the full Academic Responsibility at Bucknell Web site, describes ways to both prevent and to detect plagiarism. With plagiarism, to quote Benjamin Franklin, “an ounce of prevention is [indeed] worth a pound ofRead More
Active Reading Technology by LiquidText
I’ve just downloaded LiquidText from the App Store and already I have found it useful and fun. Liquid Text uses active reading technology, allowing you to highlight, annotate, outline and take notes quickly. Pages can be compared and searched easily. UsingRead More
Survey Software: Choices for Faculty Members
At Bucknell, we have three easy-to-use platforms for creating surveys: Qualtrics Moodle Google Forms Qualtrics (discussed in a related blog entry) is the most flexible and advanced of the three options just mentioned. Here are some scenarios in which QualtricsRead More