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Add VoiceThread or Perusall to Moodle
The process of linking your Moodle course with a third party tool is the same for VoiceThread and Perusall. This page summarizes the initial step-by-step process to get your course … Continued
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Change Your Moodle Course Image
In Moodle 3.8 you can now add your own course image to your Moodle page. This image will appear in the Dashboard of everybody with access to your site. Note: Only … Continued
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Moodle Basics
Moodle is designed in such a way that you can use it incrementally. In this post, we’ll go over the basics of using Moodle to post and organize your course … Continued
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Manage the Visibility of Your Course
How to control if students can see your course, and what content they can see within the course.
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Add Users to Your Moodle Course
If a person already has an account on the Smith Moodle system, an instructor can add them to their own course.
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Use the Announcements Forum
Use the Announcements forum to send messages to your class.
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Email Your Class or a Group Within the Class with QuickMail
The QuickMail block can be used to send bulk emails to everyone in the course or to a specific set of students.
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Moodle Gradebook Basics
The Moodle Gradebook automatically records scores and feedback from Assignments, Activities, and/or Manual grades from your Moodle course. Students can review their grades in an individual report. Instructors can control … Continued
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Upload Feedback Files in Moodle
One feature of Moodle is the ability to download all student submissions, mark them up, and upload them in bulk to students with feedback. Once you get the hang of … Continued
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Podcast: What’s in a Name?
On the eve of Smith College 2017 Commencement, Margaret Bruzelius was assiduously rehearsing the pronunciation of 200 student names. To get it right, she made no assumptions. This year a new technology simplified her task. She used NameCoach, Smith’s new name pronunciation software (easy to use and available campus-wide). Listen to her story, featuring interviews with Margaret Bruzelius and Dwight Hamilton.