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Importing and repurposing your Moodle course content for the next academic year If you want to repurpose course material from last year’s courses, it is possible to import some or all of the content to your new 2015/16 courses. For guidance on how to do this, please access the importing content from another moodle course guidance sheet.…
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During the last academic year there have been a significant number of successful assessments submitted and marked electronically using the Moodle assignment tool. As a result of staff and student feedback there have been some changes made to both the technology and recommended practice in order to streamline and enhance the eSubmission process across the…
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— This post was written by Luke McGowan — The TELMeD team are proud to announce that we have been nominated for the Learning Technologist of the Year Team award at the 2015 ALT conference! The ALT (Association for Learning Technology) awards celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field,…
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We have been nominated for the ALT LT Team of the Year award. Details are at https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/2015-learning-technologist-of-the-year-awards/ There is also a public vote via email or twitter. To tweet for ASTI use the hashtag #LTA4 Suggested tweet is: My vote for #LTAwards #LTA4. Find out more at https://www.alt.ac.uk/LTAwardsVOTE
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ASTI is interested in working with staff who are either planning or delivering distance learning courses. We would like to identify current distance learning providers, those planning to deliver distance learning, and anyone who would like to know more about this area, with a view to sharing and developing good practice. To express an interest…
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I’ve talked about how a question gets automatically given a difficulty rating, and the importance of rating a question good or bad question with a thumbs up or down… But what difference does it all make in certain areas of the app? Read on… When a question is first created its kind of in no…
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Whilst every effort has been made to ensure QuizIt is as intuitive and easy to use as possible, there’s a lot going on under the hood to automatically provide you, the Quizzer, the questions you are interested in or at least give you a heads up on the current difficulty of a question you are…
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We recently created a short video case study about our mobile platform at Plymouth University designed to support teaching and learning. This case study showcases an insight into the mobile services available that can be consumed on any device whilst highlighting its positive impact on the student experience. For more information, please view the Mobile with Plymouth…
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Questions in QuizIt automatically provides you with a difficulty rating for questions answered but what about rating questions good or bad instead of difficulty? That can’t be done automatically, at least not yet! Thankfully most mobile app users are accustomed to the thumbs up icon when they ‘like’ something. Not so much a thumbs down…
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Push notifications are a fantastic way to notify the user of an action in a particular app whilst they are not using it. It’s also a great way to hook them back into the app by teasing them with a snippet of information that intrigues them to clicking on it. QuizIt utilises what’s called Local…
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There are a few ways to find a question in the app, you can search using any keywords you type much like searching for anything via a website. You can use the QuizMix to be given lots of random questions or you can go to the rated/unrated area and see if there are any questions…
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A new feature has recently been added to the Plymouth University app. Since introducing the DLE option within the app, we have received feedback regard the number of alerts and the lack of functionality to mass delete. This month we have added this functionality, so now when viewing all your notification, you can click ‘Edit’,…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — It was interesting to see how they bought a whole new gaming perspective to our usual methods of designing and implementing eLearning, and how we learned to compromise our approaches to create a simulation module that involved all the good pedagogical principles of eLearning, with the…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — The PPE project had many different stakeholders in many different locations, and project managing for the development team required us to work in ways completely new to the team. The main people we were working with were based in several different parts of the UK, and…
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ASTI have set up the “Just one thing” initiative to provide an alternative approach to supporting teaching staff. It aims to encourage and enable them to get the best out of the DLE, and to explore and use other relevant tools that might enhance their current teaching and learning provision. Every month there will be…
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The Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 12th edition outlines annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project established to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. The panel have categorised these…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — There has been some success in the control of the outbreak, but with the loss of nearly 500 health workers’ lives, over 7,000 lives in communities and an even greater mortality indirectly through reduction in normal health service provision. Hotspots of infection and new cases are…
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PebblePad is the University’s web based ePortfolio system. It is available to all staff and students, and can be used independently for personal and professional development, or as part of assessed activities within the curriculum. Do you include any of the following as part of your teaching or student support activities?: Portfolio Assessment Action planning…
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The DLE has given us opportunities to expand and develop our teaching practices, and to change the way we interact with students. This first year of using the DLE has very much focused on providing a continuity of the service we previously offered our students. However, many have also taken the opportunity to try something…
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As many of you know there is a new tool for electronic submission (eSubmission) in Moodle, called ‘Assignment’. This replaces SCOLAR. The new help resources can guide you through all stages of the eSubmission process. They can be viewed online, or printed, and most have accompanying videos. Help and guidance materials include: How to set…
