Monday, May 13, 2013

Here comes summer!



The warm days of summer and the Moodle 2.3 upgrade are nearly upon us.  Please remember to have grades in SOAR and to export personal copies of gradebook and attendance records  from Moodle before students are unenrolled from Moodle at 8:00 a.m. Monday, May 20th.  Faculty who will be teaching summer courses are able to import their course materials into their summer courses now, and the courses will be automatically transformed to Moodle 2.3 during the upgrade process.  The blank courses for the Fall semester will be created early in June, and faculty may import their course materials for fall at anytime over the summer. Remember, do not try to log into Moodle from May 20th until you receive notification via email that the upgrade is complete, as that could interfere with the upgrade process.

All faculty members will be notified via email when the Moodle upgrade is complete. At that time, you will once again be able to login to Moodle.

Moodle Bootcamp is back! Join us May 29th OR May 30th for a day of training and focused work time. As usual, we will have two adjacent rooms for this event. In room 2C3A, Robin will lead training sessions, while Greg, Kathy, and Molly staff 2C3B for those who wish to work on their Moodle course with expert assistance available. Bring a bag lunch – there will be home baked cookies for dessert! Our schedule, which will be identical on both days of training, will be as follows:

9:30 – 10:00:  Activity Completion, Course Completion

10:00 – 11:00: Personal Learning Designer

(break – those who have attended training sessions in March and April may want to switch to the workroom to work on their courses, while those new to Moodle 2 continue in the classroom)

11:00 – 12:00:  Review of Navigation, Quickmail, editing tools and file management in Moodle 2

(Lunch – brown bag – cookies provided)

12:45 – 2:00: Review of joule gradebook, rubrics and checklists, activity reports, any leftover time for questions

Adjunct Moodle Training will be offered from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. on May 28th in room 2F05. This training will offer an overview of the new Moodle 2 system, and will be particularly useful for those who couldn’t attend our earlier March or April training sessions. The schedule will be as follows for this evening:

6:00 – 7:10 – Navigation, communication, file management, resources and activities
7:20 – 8:30 – Joule gradebook, rubrics and checklists, activity reports, quick look at Personal Learning Designer

Please register for Moodle Training Events at the IT Registration page. We look forward to seeing you soon!