Starting Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the ITS Knowledge Base (KB) is getting a major upgrade. While all of our trusted help documentation and instructions are staying the same, we are migrating the site to a new platform to give you … Continue reading A New Look for the ITS Knowledge Base
Grading is an important and time-consuming task. Careful, personalized feedback helps students learn, but timely feedback is a challenge. Swarthmore has few tools that handle simple grading automatically. Moodle quizzes can score multiple-choice questions and the WeBWorK math homework system … Continue reading The Ethics of Efficiency: Wrestling with AI-Generated Feedback
ITS has introduced a new Moodle feature that assigns students and community members who are auditing a course the Auditor role. This role does not include a gradebook entry, making it easier for instructors to quickly distinguish between students taking … Continue reading Who’s Auditing? Moodle Now Knows
Google Colab is an online Jupyter Notebook service that can be used for interactive coding in Python, R, and Julia. The notebook interface makes it possible to mix text, code, and graphics. The Pro version, which includes more processing power … Continue reading Google Colab Free for Students and Faculty
Swarthmore provides Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) tools to support teaching, learning, and research. Privacy All of College-provided resources are private and do not train on data entered or uploaded to the service. Conversely, most free services will use any … Continue reading AI Resources at Swarthmore
This summer, Moodle received an impactful upgrade that faculty members will appreciate: the addition of subsections. This new feature allows for clearer organization of course content by breaking up lengthy topics or weeks into manageable subsections, making navigation easier for … Continue reading Use Subsections to Fight Moodle Sprawl
