As you are prepping your courses for Fall here are a five tips to make sure the online portion of your courses are off to a great start!
- Send an introductory email to your students. Sending an introductory email to your students tells them you are geared up and ready to go, inspiring them to do the same. Make sure to include contact information, important dates from your syllabus, and other information that will help your students learn and succeed. This is a great idea even for face to face courses.
- Prep your Moodle course. Check your course to make sure it’s ready for Fall semester. Make sure all your due dates and start dates are correct, links still work, and that your sections or resources are shown or hidden as you need.
- Introductory Ice Breaker / Forum - a best practice for online classes is to include an ice-breaker activity which allows students to get to know each other. An easy way to do this is an introductory forum. Read more about online ice-breakers here.
- New Timeout Default Procedure - you received an email from Dr. Molly Baker, our new Director of Instructional Technology, concerning the new default timeout for Moodle and best practices for quizzes. Please make sure to read through this change to Moodle.
To recap:
- Moodle Timeout is 3 hours
- Quiz default time limit is set to 2 hours (this can be changed), with this on students will see a timer as they take a quiz
- create quizzes with no more than 5 to 7 questions per page
- this change only affects future quizzes you create, it does not alter existing quizzes. Please edit existing quizzes to meet these best practice guidelines.
- Make your course available- if you have hidden your course, be sure to go to the settings link in the administration block and make your course available in the “Availability” section
If you haven’t requested your Fall Moodle Course, please do so soon!
Request using the form here: http://svcc.edu/employees/it/Moodle-Request
0 comments:
Post a Comment