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Assessment and Evaluation of Group Work in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/best-practices-for-group-work-evaluation/ Group work can produce anxiety for students, and much of that anxiety comes from not knowing how much their grade will be affected by other...

Best Practices for Designing Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/best-practices-for-designing-your-moodle-course/ What does a well-designed course look like in Moodle?

Why Gamify Your Moodle Course?

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/why-gamify-your-moodle-course/ Overview Gamification is the practice of introducing principles and design concepts from games into non-game environments to increase participation, engagement, and performance. The Gamification Plugin...

Group Work in Moodle: Introduction and Examples

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/group-work-in-moodle/ This article discusses the benefits of group work, gives guidance on what sorts of assignments and activities work well for group work, and offers some...

Use Moodle Checklists to Help Students Get Organized and Track Progress

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-checklist/ How can you help students plan for completing course tasks? The Checklist activity is a tool in Moodle that can be used to help students...

Assessing Student Learning with Core Moodle Tools

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/assess-with-moodle-tools/ Assessment and feedback are critical to teaching and learning. Low-stakes assessments can be “formative,” meaning they administered before or during the learning process to guide...

Help Students Stay Organized in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/help-students-stay-organized/ How can you help reduce student frustration and stress in your Moodle course? By providing clear explanations and lists to help students stay organized, instructors...

Gamify Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/gamify/ Gamification can be a great way to strengthen self-regulation and engagement

Promoting Academic Integrity in Moodle Quizzes

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/quiz-academic-integrity/ How can you configure your online quizzes and exams to make them more secure? While there is no silver bullet to defeat all types of...

Finding and Teaching with Digital Library Resources in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/digital-library-resources-in-moodle/ There are different strategies for finding resources that work for your classes and then integrating them into Moodle to provide easy access for you and your students.

Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Moodle Lesson Activity

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-lesson/ The Moodle Lesson Activity allows instructors to create branching exercises where students are presented with content and then, depending on their responses or choices, are directed to the next stage of the lesson.

Moodle Gradebook: Basic Setup, Display and Functionality

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-gradebook/ The Moodle gradebook is a tool that allows instructors to enter grades for course activities and to view a summary of their students’ grades in one place.

Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Adaptive and Personalized Pathways in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/customize-learning-experiences/ Custom learning experiences for students include personalized and adaptive course activities in which students have different learning experiences based on their choices or completion of...

Moodle Course Roadmap Overview

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-roadmap-overview/ Roadmap is a Moodle activity you can build into your course to provide students with an interactive visualization of course activities and assessments.

Stealth Activities in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/stealth-activities-in-moodle/ Instructors can create activities or resources and make them available but hidden from students and then link to those activities/resources.

Tips for Organizing Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/organizing-your-moodle-course/ How can you organize the layout of your Moodle course so that students can focus their energy on learning?

Google Assignments in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/google-assignments/ With Google Assignments, you can collect assignments and give feedback by integrating Google Drive and Moodle. What does this mean? You can harness Google’s rich...

Using H5P Interactive Content in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/h5p-interactive-content/ H5P allows you to create a variety of tasks to provide interactive content delivery and quick knowledge checks alongside your course content within Moodle.

Connecting Instructional Materials and Learning Activities

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/connecting-instructional-materials-and-learning-activities/ When students can clearly see the link between the resources you give them (like readings, videos, or lectures) and the tasks they need to complete...

Creating and Recording Accessible Lectures and Presentations

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/creating-and-recording-accessible-lectures-and-presentations/ Course content is often delivered through lectures and presentations. Recorded lectures and lecture slides may be shared through Moodle or by other digital means. Regardless...

Tips and Strategies for Successful Group Work

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/tips-and-strategies-for-successful-group-work/ Planning an assignment or project to be completed by a group of students can raise lots of questions and concerns for an instructor: How should...

Course Introductions: Forums, VoiceThread, Padlet

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/course-introductions/ Course introductions provide instructors with the first opportunity to connect with their students on a personal level. Traditional methods often fell short in fostering meaningful...

Get Your Students Talking Online

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/get-your-students-talking-online/ Interactions between students are a valuable part of online learning. Multiple studies (see Liu et al (2024) and Azizan et al (2023) for examples) have...

Micro-Learning with Videos and Multimedia

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/micro-learning-with-videos-and-multimedia/ Over the past few years, teaching practices and pedagogy have undergone significant changes, giving rise to various innovative approaches. As these shifts have altered how...

Step-by-Step Online Course Space Creation Guide

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/step-by-step-online-course-creation-2/ This guide conveys our recommended approach to setting up a basic course in Moodle at NC State. These suggestions and resources will help you incorporate...

VoiceThread: Interactive Presentations and Student Discussions

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/voicethread/ Workshop Links If there are no workshops available, you may request an instructional consultation about this topic. VoiceThread is an asynchronous multimedia slideshow tool that...

Ungrading Toolkit: Learning vs. Earning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/ungrading-toolkit/ Ungrading is a movement to reduce or eliminate the role of grades in formal learning environments. Ungrading shifts the focus from traditional grades to self-monitoring...

How To Choose and Assess a Learning Tool

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/choose-and-assess-learning-tools/ Selecting and evaluating a learning tool requires careful consideration. It involves various steps, such as choosing instructional tools that align with your goals for student...

Make Your Course More Mobile-Friendly

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/mobile-friendly-course/ With more students using smartphones and tablets to access their courses through the NC State Moodle mobile app, it’s crucial to design your content with...

Make A More Student-Friendly Gradebook

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/student-friendly-gradebook/ Students monitor their performance based on feedback in order to reflect and grow, a process that is part self-regulated learning (Pintrich, 2004). As the Moodle...

Digital Accessibility Guide

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/digital-accessibility-guide/ About this guide Use this guide to make make images, text, audio, video, and tables in your course more accessible, and to improve course readability...

Student Blogging Assignments

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/student-blogging-assignments/ Workshop Links When we think of blogs, memories of early internet diaries may come to mind. However, the evolution of this writing genre has given...

Supporting Neurodiverse Students Through Course Design

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/course-design-for-neurodiverse-students/ You’ve doubtless heard the expression “Great minds think alike,” but the reality is that great minds work in countless different ways. There is no “right”...

Get Your Students Talking with Yellowdig

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/yellowdig/ Yellowdig is an online discussion platform that puts students in the driver’s seat. It’s designed according to the Community of Inquiry framework, which highlights the...

Using ChatGPT and Generative AI for Efficient Teaching and Work

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/using-chatgpt-and-ai-for-teaching-and-work/ Generative AI tools like ChatGPT can simplify and enhance academic work by automating content creation, providing personalized feedback, writing course objectives, summarizing course content, providing...

Hybrid Teaching: Best Practices

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/hybrid-teaching-best-practices/ Overview At NC State, there are a number of course modalities offered, including in-person (aka face to face), hybrid (a mix of online and in-person...

Using Intelliboard Data to Improve Student Success

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/utilizing-data-from-intelliboard/ Overview Intelliboard is a powerful data visualization tool that gives you user-friendly reports about Moodle data. Intelliboard takes information about your online courses from Moodle...

HyFlex Teaching: Best Practices

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/hyflex-teaching-best-practices/ Overview HyFlex courses are those that provide a multimodal approach to learning, combining online and in-person students within the same course (Beatty, 2019). The term...

Elevate your Content with Universal Design for Learning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/elevate-your-content-with-udl/ Universal Design for Learning (UDL) recognizes that learners vary along many spectra, some of which might create barriers to learning when students are only given...

Boost Motivation with Universal Design for Learning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/boost-motivation-with-universal-design-for-learning/ Universal Design for Learning (UDL) recognizes that variability exists in student populations along many spectra, and guides the design of learning experiences that present as...

Designing Online Training

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/designing-online-training/ Training should be an ongoing process and shouldn’t stop with onboarding. Employees who receive continuous online training are more: Asynchronous training is convenient for employees....

Use a Course Map Template

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/use-a-course-map-template/ A course map is a document that is helpful in planning the structure of your course before you start to organize it in Moodle. A...

Gradescope: Streamline the Grading Experience

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/gradescope/ Gradescope is grading software that is designed to make assignment submission and grading easier. It allows instructors to create variable-length assignments (problem sets & projects)...

Perusall: Interactive Reading Assignments

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/perusall/ Workshop Links If no workshops are available, you can contact learntech@ncsu.edu to request a consultation about using Perusall in your courses. Perusall is a text-based...

Create a Class Website with WolfWare WordPress

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/wolfware-wordpress/ Workshop Links Are you interested in making a public homepage for your course or using a website for delivering instructional content? WordPress is available as...

Using Top Hat for Student Engagement

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/top-hat/ Do your students struggle to stay engaged during class? Do you want to encourage more participation, engagement and active learning, even in large courses? Top...

Mid-Semester Check-Ins

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/mid-semester-check-ins/ What are mid-semester check-ins? Mid-semester is a great time to check in with your students in order to make any adjustments or course corrections based...

Humanizing Your Online Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/humanizing-your-online-course/ Workshop Links “Human connection is the antidote for the emotional disruption that prevents many students from performing to their full potential and in online courses,...

Turnitin: Writing Feedback, Plagiarism Checks, and Peer Review

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/turnitin/ Turnitin is software accessed through Moodle that compares submitted written work with other sources (determined by the instructor) to look for similarities. Turnitin can also...

Create Short “Just Right” Videos for Your Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/just-right-videos/ When teaching online, it is essential to establish a teaching presence. This has been correlated with increased affect and motivation, a sense of classroom community,...