As we explained in a recent Message Center posting, starting with Summer 2015, we will have two Moodle servers. Our Moodle Production Server – http://moodle.bucknell.edu – will host the following course categories: Community Sites (Departments, Organizations, etc.) Entering Students (Academic Responsibility Orientation,Read More
How-Tos
Anatomy of a Successful Technology Assignment
Integrating technology into an assignment – for example, a digital story, Web-based or digital essay, or GIS project – can present challenges, but it can also be highly rewarding for students. Such assignments can inspire students to express their ideasRead More
The Moodle Assignment Activity
If you assign written essays for a course, one of the challenges is figuring out how students will submit those essays to you. You could have the students submit paper copies, but then you need to keep track of whenRead More
Registering Student Clickers Using “Roll Call Registration”
In the past, students registered their clickers (along with their name and student ID) on the iclicker Web site, and faculty members would synchronize their course roster with the iclicker database to assign student names to clicker IDs. As ofRead More
The Moodle Gradebook and “Non-Emtpy Grades”
If you don’t use the Moodle Gradebook, you can stop reading here and just go back to calculating grades with whatever tool you do use. 😉 If you do use the Moodle Gradebook, then you may need to change oneRead More
How Do I Edit the Topic Summary?
In addition to consolidating the various editing icons into one drop-down menu, Moodle 2.6 changed the way you edit the heading for a topic area. Under Moodle 2.5 and below, you clicked on the familiar yellow pencil under that topicRead More