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Gamify Your Moodle Course

Gamification can be a great way to strengthen self-regulation and engagement

Perusall

Perusall is a text-based social annotation/commenting/discussion tool. Instructors provide students with a text, and students use commenting to have an asynchronous discussion about the text....

Using Top Hat for Student Engagement

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...

Large Course Assignment and Assessment Ideas

Overview Large courses are those with a high student enrollment; these courses can present some unique challenges, particularly when it comes to grading student assignments...

Overview of H5P

H5P is a tool in Moodle that allows you to create interactive content and activities for quick, low-stakes knowledge checks and practice. This 30-minute session...

Engagement in Synchronous and Asynchronous Environments

Students must engage in their courses in order to learn. But what, exactly, do we mean by “student engagement?” And what teaching practices and strategies...

Active Learning

Active learning is an approach that engages students in the learning process, and is often thought of as an alternative to conventional lectures. Commonly accepted...