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
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
For Fall 2024, some Moodle courses may not display the weekly course format properly. If you have turned on “Weekly Sections” and your sections are still labeled as “Topic 1”, “Topic 2,” etc. or with dates from a previous semester, … Continue reading Moodle Weekly Format Fix
By now, all current faculty and instructional staff should be aware of the Accessibility Filescan and how to use it. However, this is just one tool to help improve accessibility in our courses. In light of this, it’s 2024: do … Continue reading Do you know how accessible your Adobe PDFs are?
tl;dr you can now upload users to Moodle courses and groups via csv file. Our Moodle platform has just rolled out an update that’s set to transform the way you manage your course groups. Say goodbye to the tedious task … Continue reading Unlock the Power of Efficiency: Introducing Bulk Enrollments in Moodle
