Information Services Announcements

Class Teams from Quarter to Quarter

Posted on by Josh Moon

In addition to Moodle and other resources, many instructors have adopted Teams to organize their online classes. Teams is designed to put de-centralized control in the hands of owners and users. While offering support and training, this as been the spirit that Information Services has maintained for using Teams. Now that we’ve completed two quarters using this platform, we wanted to share some thoughts about carrying over work on Teams from quarter to quarter…

Discontinuing Video Hosting on Moodle for Winter 2021

Posted on by Josh Moon
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Information Services is discontinuing support for video files hosted directly on Moodle beginning in winter 2021. This applies only to video files that have been uploaded or drag-and-dropped directly into Moodle.  It will still be possible to link or embed videos from other services such as Microsoft Stream and YouTube.  In response to the increase […]

Faculty now have access to Moodle sites for Winter 2021

Posted on by Josh Moon
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This week, Information Services created Moodle course sites for winter 2021.  These should be available to instructors immediately.  They will be visible to students at the discretion of the instructor as we get closer to the start of the quarter in January. We have a new form if you would like course content imported from […]

Five Ways to Send Files at K that are Better than Email!

Posted on by Josh Moon

While email attachments are quick and familiar, sending files to each other can fill up our Sent Items folders as well as the email storage of our recipients. Information Services is in the midst of a long-term project to eventually migrate our email server to a “cloud” based Office 365 system.  When this happens – […]