One of Moodle’s strengths is the ability to collect student writing online. There are a multiple Moodle Activities designed to accomplish this, and this post is going to discuss the key features and settings of three: Forum, OU Blog, and Assignment…
Welcome back students! Although circumstances are vastly different this quarter, the Information Services team would still like to give you a warm welcome back to Kalamazoo College and share how we can support you. We understand that this abrupt transition to distance learning is not easy and our goal is to provide as much support as we can through transparency, documentation, and communication.
One of our goals is to enable faculty and staff to work as securely as possible from home. Our partner in security awareness training, SANS, offers these five steps.
Maintenance this week will affect Colleague, VPN, and more.
There are many ways to take video content and deliver it to students online. We’re going to talk about recommended solutions for spring quarter…
Take a look at our list of resources to help you work from home! Know that our ultimate goal is to support you with your technical needs throughout this difficult time. We appreciate all of your patience as we continue to handle requests.
A message from Josh Moon: Dear Colleagues, the wealth of links, tips, and best practices available for online teaching has been valuable. However, something many of us are missing are models and experience. I am happy to offer an online Moodle course titled Introduction to Contingency Teaching Online…
Services to be Interrupted Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, March 19, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Websites throughout the kzoo.edu domain, including this page The interruptions listed above are not expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security […]
As the College prepares to transition to online teaching, we’ll rely on some resources the College already possesses. One of our core tools is our Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle. It is familiar to students and to many faculty, making it a great place to start. The purpose of this post is to illustrate what a […]
In the event that classes are unable to meet in-person, the College has a number of resources available to facilitate a transition to online instruction. The recommendations below are consistent with other institutions and form the essential plan of moving to online learning in a contingency situation. For implementation, questions, both technical and pedagogical, please contact: […]
