Posted December 9, 2021

The Moodle Sensus Access Document Converter activity makes it easier for course participants to convert course documents (including files attached to forum posts and assignments) into the alternative file formats that work with their assistive technology devices. Before you begin: You must have a Teacher role in the Moodle course to add activities. Log on […]
Posted September 20, 2021

There are a few different methods for students to upload audio/video files to Panopto to submit a class assignment or project: Using Panopto’s Assignment Folder Giving Students Creator Access to a Panopto Course Folder Using a Moodle Assignment for Students to Link to their Panopto File Below, we will outline these different processes as well […]
Posted August 24, 2021

Piazza is a standalone discussion board or “Q and A” platform, with free, ad-supported and paid, ad-free license tiers. At faculty request, Bryn Mawr College is piloting an ad-free site license for Piazza for the 2021-2022 academic year. We will ask instructors and students who use this license to help us evaluate it in order […]
Posted April 6, 2021

The NameCoach activity allows participants in a course to record the pronunciation of their name for other participants to hear, helping both teachers and students learn each other’s names quickly. Add the NameCoach Activity to a Course You must have a Teacher role to set up the NameCoach activity. Log into your course and Turn Editing […]
Posted January 29, 2021

With a new activity in Moodle called Panopto Quiz, you can now connect in-video quizzes you’ve created in Panopto to report grades to the Moodle gradebook. To do this, you’ll need to have already created the quiz in the Panopto video and make sure the finished video is connected to your course in Moodle. You […]
Posted January 27, 2021

If your Moodle course contains a Zoom activity, you will be able to see and join any meetings created through it in several different ways. From the Zoom activity: Open the Moodle course and click on the Zoom activity. The Upcoming Meetings tab lists all future course meetings — click the Join button next to a […]
Posted August 6, 2020

The Zoom activity in Moodle makes it easier to for instructors and students to manage course-related Zoom meetings. When you schedule Zoom meetings with this activity: Zoom automatically invites all course participants. Moodle creates calendar events for any meetings with a time and date and includes the start/join link. Course participants can see all of […]
Posted August 6, 2020
Like most Learning Management Systems (LMS), Moodle supports Learning Technology Interoperability (LTI) standards. LTI enables connections between Moodle and external educational technology platforms such as Zoom or Panopto. When a connection is made, Moodle can send the name and email address of course participants to identify them as permitted to access course-specific resources and/or link […]
Posted January 23, 2020

When a Panopto block is added to a course and “provisioned,” it creates a parallel course folder on the Panopto server. Anyone with a Teacher role in the Moodle course will have a Creator permissions for the Panopto folder and and anyone with an Auditor or Registered Student role in the Moodle course will have […]
Posted January 15, 2020

Accessing a Course’s Recordings: the Panopto Moodle Block Anyone with a Student role in a Moodle course can view all of a course’s recordings in the Panopto Moodle block, pictured below. Each of the recordings will be listed under Completed Recordings. By default, this block is in the right sidebar of new course shells. If […]