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!
