Unleash the Full Potential of Your Moodle Course: Exploring the Activity Completion Feature
Moodle offers a useful tool called Activity Completion, which professors can use to establish completion requirements for student activities. This feature ensures that students are aware of the tasks they need to accomplish and allows instructors to determine conditions for … Continue reading Unleash the Full Potential of Your Moodle Course: Exploring the Activity Completion Feature
Research Data Storage Options in a Post-Google World
For many years, users at institutions subscribing to Google’s suite of tools enjoyed effectively unlimited data storage within Google Drive. Seriously, there was a time when the only hard limit was 1 terabyte(!) per file. For researchers needing to store … Continue reading Research Data Storage Options in a Post-Google World
Making PDFs more accessible
Are you a student who’d like your PDF to be more accessible? Are you a faculty member who is unsure how to make the material you scanned pass the Moodle Accessibility File Scan? Making PDFs more accessible can be easy. … Continue reading Making PDFs more accessible
Strelka: The Year in Review
As 2023 comes to a close, it is worth reflecting on ways in which Strelka remains the focus of Swarthmore’s research computing infrastructure. Our flagship high-performance computing cluster has undergone substantial upgrades to its capabilities, and has also been used … Continue reading Strelka: The Year in Review
New SPSS version adds features, MacOS Sonoma compatibility
IBM SPSS Statistics 29, which is now available for the Swarthmore College community, includes new customer-requested linear ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and parametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model statistical procedures, improved open-source extension integration, UI enhancements, new data visualization … Continue reading New SPSS version adds features, MacOS Sonoma compatibility
Student Portfolios With Domain of One’s Own
Over the years, digital student portfolios have emerged as a viable option for students to showcase their academic journey and professional readiness. Unlike traditional resumes, digital portfolios offer a dynamic and comprehensive picture of a student’s capabilities, experiences, and personal … Continue reading Student Portfolios With Domain of One’s Own