Category: Tips

How do students see the results of their quizzes in Moodle?

Given that you really don’t have a fake student in Moodle, it’s difficult for teachers to see how students view the results of their  quizzes.

Here’s what you should tell students to do:

1.  Select the link  for the Moodle quiz or exam in the course.

2.  Select picture link (will open  in new window) and to see any one of the three links that a student could choose to view results of her individual quiz/exam.

Using Moodle to support Peer Review Activities

Here’s a useful description from the University of Minnesota’s Digital Media Center using Moodle to support peer review and self assessment.

http://dmc.umn.edu/activities/peer-review/

Moodle’s forum tool is a fine tool for reciprocal teaching techniques such as jigsaws or fishbowl collaborative learning techniques.

Fishbowl example

CNET Tip – Online resources for podcasters

From Seamus Condron at CNET — Online Resources for podcasters

CNET Tips & Tricks

For those of you interested in simple solutions to technology problems, take a peek at CNET’s Tips & Tricks website. Some solutions include organizing digital photos, improving lighting with home video, and shooting better pics with your cell phone.

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What is Moodle?

From Moodle Tutorials.org site…. At the Moodletutorials.org site there are a number of other “how to use Moodle” videos.

Here’s a short presentation of What is Moodle?

Retrieve LOST digital photos

If it appears you’ve lost some digital photos on your camera’s memory card, read this tip by CNET…

http://help.cnet.com/ipod/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2505163

Flash Tutorial Videos – Pipeline

Here’s a link to a series of web-based flash videos that you can watch. As before, you’ll need a high speed Internet connection in order to view the videos.

Tutorial Flash Videos – Pipeline

Tutorial – Using Xythos at SBCC

Here’s a few links to some short guides that illustrate how to use Xythos at SBCC. Xythos is a web file-sharing management system that is being used as the backbone of a number of e-portfolio systems at other colleges and universities. Note, I’ve also posted a link to a series of web-based flash videos that you can watch. As before, you’ll need a high speed Internet connection in order to view the videos.

  • Collecting student work — Don’t recommend using Xythos as a tool to collect student homework, etc., because it is fraught with potential problems such as students accessing and copying other classmates’ work and ideas, as well as seeing teacher comments made on other students’ work, etc., a potential confidentiality issue. Instead, I suggest teachers use an LMS tool such as Moodle’s assignment tool.

  • Supporting peer review (embedded comments ) of students’ work (pdf file)
  • Supporting student e-portfolios (pdf file)
  • Sharing documents with SBCC colleagues (see video link below)
  • Sharing documents with non-SBCC staff (see video link below)
  • Using Xythos as a group collaboration tool (pdf file)
  • Questions about access rights or permissions (pdf file)
  • When to use Xythos tickets, when not (pdf file)

video icon http://frc.sbcc.edu/tutorials/xythos/start/

Start here

open signOkay, so where do you begin? The FRC has resources and staff to help you improve your teaching or development of teaching materials.

A good place to start is instructional consultation… Contact David Wong (X2862 – wong@sbcc.edu) or Mark Ferrer (X2660 – ferrer@sbcc.edu) and we’ll schedule a meeting to talk about your ideas and how to proceed.