Course Management at Earlham College

Moodle Training 05

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:46:06 GMT

Lists the Moodle workshops (getting started, refrresher, advanced), Moodle sessions -- build your own course, and Moodle Milestones celebration

Moodle best practices : scanning for resources

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:44:23 GMT

In the best practices: scanning guide we talk about the best ways to work with support staff such as secretaries and student workers when asking them to perform scanning tasks.

Moodle best practices: resources

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:42:29 GMT

Moodle best practices should help you to figure out the whys and wherefores of using Moodle with a course. In the dealing with Resources guide we talk about what consistutes a Moodle “resource”, the different ways that web pages can be referenced with Moodle (pros and cons of each), the importance of describing the resource thoroughly, different ways of displaying a resource and finally, the advantages of having a web URL as a resource rather than a direct link.

Dealing with last year's courses: conceal course

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:40:14 GMT

If nothing is done with your last year's course student will still see it on their course list. Very confusing. All you need to do is to unenroll the students manually. This guide tells you how to do this in 5 minutes. Also how to set the course to unavailable for student access.

Dealing with last year's courses: reuse course with new class

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:37:56 GMT

How to restore a course using the backup zip file into a new course to reuse the material.

Dealing with last year's courses: backup

Mark Pearson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:35:37 GMT

Backing up and downloading your Moodle course to have a safe copy on your own machine and transfer the information into a new course.

Moodle Milestone : One Year of Moodle at Earlham

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:29:07 GMT

Moodle has had a supremely successful roll out at Earlham in 04-05; over two semesters the system has been used by 60 faculty in 79 courses with over half the student body. This web-based presentation covers the adoption of the Moodle system by faculty, views on usability & pedagogy, how it was actually used in practice by both faculty and students, and conclusions and best practices. 34 'slides' onscreen or 17 pages of print.

Faculty views about Moodle : Spring 05 survey

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:18:34 GMT

Survey of all faculty who had used Moodle in 04-05 year using the SurveyMonkey online survey tool. 60 faculty were canvassed and 32 responded to the 10 questions. Many useful comments. Conclusions still to come though :-)

MITC Fellows Proposal

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:01:07 GMT

I submitted a proposal for the MITC Fellows programme called Teaching with Social Software : Pedagogical Insights. I think it's shit hot even though it wasn't successful (I suspect the weakness was in the assessment and outreach to Earlham faculty) and I'm hoping the course described works well. Certainly I've had supportive and envious comments from other Instructional Tech folks I've talked to and maybe there'll be a publication.

Moodle use by Earlham faculty : Glitter presentation

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:05:56 GMT

Presentation given to the Great Lakes Information Technology TEaching ER conference at Hope college on March 24th 2005. 20 slides about how Moodle has been used by faculty at Earlham for this past academic year. Formatted using Eric Meyer's excellent S5 system.

Moodle and Open Source : Glitter Presentation

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:06:14 GMT

Presentation given to the Great Lakes Information Technology TEaching ER conference at Hope college on March 24th 2005. A shared workshop with Scott Sidall where I showed 8 slides about Moodle development stuff. Formatted using Eric Meyer's excellent S5 system.

AECT Conference 2005 : workshop proposal

Mark Pearson — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:06:35 GMT

I submitted a proposal for a workshop at the AECT Conference 2005 in Orlando called "Using Moodle in the classroom: how this online learning environment can enhance pedagogy" ; I'm going to present this together with Brian Beatty from San Francisco State

Student Opinions of Moodle and Chef : Fall 04

Mark Pearson — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:05:52 GMT

What student users of both Moodle and Chef thought about both and how they compared.

Survey of Student Opinions of Moodle : Fall 04

Mark Pearson — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:00:00 GMT

What students thought about the use of Moodle in their classes. This comprehensive report (14 pages) was produced for ITPC and the conclusions are worth reading

Ford-Knight Research Proposal : Enhancing the Moodle Course Management System

Mark Pearson — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:07:18 GMT

Proposal for a Ford-Knight research project with CS students for spring 06 entitled "Teaching with Technology at Earlham: Enhancing the Moodle Course Management System. It was accepted!

Survey of faculty use of Moodle : Fall 04

Mark Pearson — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:44:30 GMT

What teaching faculty thought about their experiences with Moodle

Twiki: User's Guide

User guide for Twiki; Earlham's stand-alone wiki system. It's particularly suited for authoring collaborative web sites.

Scanning into Adobe Acrobat

How to make a tight scan of a document into Acrobat and avoid pitfalls that balloon file size.

Using Moodle with Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox browser has been in the news recently. For Mac users especially, Firefox is a must have for Moodle. Find out why here.