uptechtips

[uptechtips]

A common question I get from instructors is “How can I make sure that grades for my assignments are not released to students until I’m ready?” Up until recently, there hasn’t been a great way to control this, but a new Moodle feature allows you to do just that – go through grading at your […]

[uptechtips]

Do you keep office hours or offer drop-in appointments for your students? Maybe you do advising and want avoid long back and forth email threads trying to find an amenable time for sessions? Do you sometimes have a line out the door, and other times wait around only for no one to show up? Or do […]

[uptechtips]

The newest Moodle update at UP has a few nifty tricks. One of the best is the ability for instructors to specify what types of students are allowed to turn in to a Moodle assignment. Want to make sure students give you a Word doc so you can use Track Changes? Make it so. Or […]

[uptechtips]

Hello, and welcome to the first #UPTechTip Friday of Fall 2018! I hope your new academic year is off to a great start. You’ve probably noticed that Moodle has a fresh new look for Fall. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to take a few minutes to get acquainted with the new […]

[uptechtips]

If you are on an up to date version of Windows 10, you should have access to the new replacement for the venerable Microsoft Pain app – Paint 3D. The new application can create 3d graphics and is also super useful as a basic image manipulation tool. Not a Windows person? See my earlier post […]

[uptechtips]

With the Kaltura integration into Moodle, it’s easy for students to create and upload their own videos. These could be used to record presentations or screencast videos, to add video comments or VLOGs (video blogs), to conduct interviews, etc. You can either provide a forum for students to post videos to, or create a Media Assignment if […]

[uptechtips]

MediaSpace has long been a great way to upload and share your multimedia at UP. Many instructors, students, and staff have uploaded thousands of hours of streaming video content for teaching, learning, and sharing. But, once your video was up on MediaSpace, there wasn’t much more you could do with it. Until Now! With the […]

[uptechtips]

Last week’s #UPTechtip on using Dropbox to request files got a lot of good feedback, so I wanted to follow that up with a few more Dropbox tips. Here are five more of the best tricks to know about in Dropbox to send you off to a cheery holiday break. Share Screenshots Quickly If you […]

[uptechtips]

As more of our work and collaboration has moved online, most of us have a Dropbox account (or three) kicking around. I use my UP Office 365 OneDrive account to store and access most of my work, but there are also specific times or use cases where Dropbox comes in really handy! My favorite is […]

[uptechtips]

This #UPTechTip is Mac Outlook users. The venerable email app has always lagged behind the Windows versions in terms of feature-set, but has received some very useful new updates that are well-worth knowing about, including: Delay sending Save message templates Request read receipts Create calendar appointments or tasks from emails See the video below for […]

[uptechtips]

iPads are incredibly versatile, mobile, and powerful computing devices that are becoming increasingly capable of acting as full-on laptop replacements for many people. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that teachers can and will be using mobile devices to present content more and more frequently in the coming months and years, either by plugging into podiums […]

[uptechtips]

Greetings, #UPTechtippers! This week I wanted to share an excellent tutorial/explainer video on using password management software. These lovely little applications serve multiple purposes: They remember your passwords and automatically plug them into websites and other apps so you don’t have to They can generate random, secure passwords (that you don’t even need to know) […]

[uptechtips]

For our last #UPTechTip of Fall 2o17, we are wrapping up our look at brand new Moodle tips and tricks with the new Moodle Recycle Bin feature! If you’ve ever had the fun feeling of realizing that you just accidentally deleted a Resource or Activity in Moodle that you meant to keep, this one is […]

[uptechtips]

Continuing our exploration of new functionality and features gained in our annual Fall Moodle update, today’s #UPTechTip shows how to allow multiple due dates for Assignment activities via the use of Overrides. Previously, instructors had no easy way to specify staggered dates and often created multiple copies of Assignment activities with differing due dates instead – […]

[uptechtips]

Online discussions are a great way to build community, develop writing skills, and foster deeper reflection and engagement with learning. Actually managing forums, however, can be tricky. It’s important that faculty who are seeking to facilitate effective online discussion understand the forum tools at their disposal. With that in mind, this week’s #UPTechTip offers a brief […]

[uptechtips]

Today’s #UPtechTip is a short video tour of the new grading workflow available in Moodle 3.2. If you are looking for an easy way to view student work, add annotations, provide feedback, and enter grades all from one powerful, flexible screen, this one is for you!

[uptechtips]

Fall is in the air! Err, not really. We’re still experiencing Summer heat in Portland. But, classes have begun at UP; students, learning, and #uptechtips have all returned from Summer vacation! This tip focuses on the Moodle Announcements forum. This is a simple but effective tool for communicating with students. If you are using Moodle […]