Pedagogy – MacDigital

Limiting Accepted File Types for Moodle Assignments

When you use an Assignment in Moodle, you have various options for how students will submit their work. One of these options includes limiting the types of files students can submit. This can be useful for streamlining your grading — if, say, you want students to turn work into a PDF before submission — or if you want to prevent...

Assignments

Group Assignments in VoiceThread

The following directions will guide students through handing in a group assignment on VoiceThread. Students can work collaboratively on a VoiceThread assignment. One person will need to need to create a VT to share with the rest of the group. It just takes a couple of easy steps. One person needs to create a VT from the Moodle home page...

Activities/Assignments/Asynchronous/Community Building/Group Work/Pedagogy/Presentations

Create a Transcript of a Recorded Zoom Meeting

Creating a written transcript from interviews and presentations is now possible when using the closed captioning feature in Zoom. Make sure you are using Macalester’s Zoom account by logging in at macalester.zoom.us. The host may enable Live Transcript by selecting the CC icon on the bottom of the Zoom screen Select Enable Auto-Transcription If you would like to a running...

Access and Inclusion/Activities/Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Group Work/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media

Using Essay Quiz Question Type for File Upload (and How to Bulk Download the Responses)

The Quiz activity in Moodle allows faculty to set start and end times for when work can be collected and for how long students have from when they begin a submission to when they complete it. The Essay quiz question type can be set up to allow students to upload a file to Moodle using the Quiz activity. This question...

Assessment

Transferring Zoom Cloud Recordings to Google Drive

When recording a Zoom meeting, you have have two options: save the recording to your computer, or to the cloud. For users at Macalester, the first option is the one you want to choose, as our Zoom cloud storage space is limited, and only meant for temporary use. This guide is designed to help you move content off of the...

Access and Inclusion/Asynchronous/Sharing Media

Accessible responsive teaching

This slideshow presentation by Melissa Fletcher provides information and resources for faculty on how to create a responsive, accessible, and supportive learning environment for their students.

Access and Inclusion/Syllabus Design/Workshops

The Impact of Systemic Racism: Implications for Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Marjorie Trueblood and Sedric McClure led a workshop on systemic racism, opening the workshop with the question, “Are we ready?” for the start of an academic year following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the global uprising against anti-Blackness, in the midst of a pandemic that has engendered high levels of stress and anxiety. Access the presentation sections of the workshop as well as additional resources for anti-racism and equity here.

Access and Inclusion

Creating Podcasts

Xavier Haro-Carrión shares the assignment prompt and project examples from his course GEOG/LATI 249: Environment and Society in Latin America, for which his students created podcasts.

Assignments/Digital Projects/Faculty & Staff Stories

HyFlex Workshop Recording

Watch the HyFlex workshop recording via this Session Recording VoiceThread to learn more about HyFlex and how you can implement into your courses this fall.

Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Syllabus Design/Synchronous

Grading with an iPad & Apple Pencil in Moodle

The iPad and Apple Pencil, two tools that come in the tech kit, enable teachers to provide handwritten feedback to students. Watch this video to learn how to grade assignments using the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Moodle’s built-in PDF grader.

Access and Inclusion/Annotation/Assignments/Whiteboard

Category: Pedagogy