Last week, Apple announced three new macOS-based hardware products and released a new version of the macOS operating system—macOS 11.0 Big Sur. The three new hardware products (the MacBook Air, the low-end MacBook Pro 13-inch, and the new Mac mini) … Continue reading macOS 11.0 Big Sur and New Apple Products
One major challenge of teaching during a pandemic is handling remote exams. There are a number of issues that arise, such as dealing with students in multiple time zones, technical glitches, academic integrity, and grading. We’ve compiled some resources that … Continue reading Exams in a Pandemic: Tips for Professors
Welcome to Fall, 2020! ITS has been hard at work this summer to make your start to the year as safe and easy as possible. While many of our service operations have changed due to COVID-19, we remain committed to … Continue reading Changes by ITS for Fall Term, 2020
We want to help you, wherever you are. We have been hard at work changing up the way we provide documentation to try and meet your tech support needs, no matter where the situation. We have been planning for changes … Continue reading Starting or Returning Where You Are
ITS recently held a workshop on “Online Assessment” to help prepare the campus for teaching remote. Here are some of the key points. Notes from the workshop Assignment Types in Moodle Moodle can help with assigning, organizing, collecting, and grading … Continue reading Tips for Online Assessment
As everything changed so abruptly in our Swarthmore-and-beyond lives in March 2020, I thought about the myriad ways I had been fortunate to learn from others. I have always been a generalist, a person who enjoys a wide variety of … Continue reading A Growing Set of (Not Always ITS-Focused) Resources
