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Using NameCoach and Moodle to hear student names

NameCoach is a Moodle activity that allows your students to record their names so you can pronounce their names correctly in class. NameCoach Instructions for Moodle There are two NameCoach activities that can be tied into Moodle. The first allows each member of the course to record their own name. This can be found as an item called NameCoach Recording...

Activities/Getting Started/Pedagogy

How to Grade A Single Moodle Quiz Question for All Students

You might find it useful at times to grade a single question in Moodle for all students at once rather than navigating through each student’s quiz to the particular question you want to grade. This can help greatly as a time saving measure. It may also help with the objectivity of grading or in the discovery of trends when it...

Assessment/Uncategorized

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...

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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...

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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

Category: Pedagogy