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RE: Proctoring Solutions

Posted By Joe Kennedy 03-21-2024 10:09:30 AM
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Happy Thursday, Sakinah. I'm at Concordia College (MN); our LMS is Moodle 4.1 but a couple of our solutions don't rely on the LMS. For synchronous in-person courses, we continue to recommend faculty proctor by walking around the room. Some faculty members worry that it's so easy for students to "flip ...

Student Success Systems instead of EAB Navigate

Posted By Joe Kennedy 11-13-2023 01:42:46 PM
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Good afternoon. Our campus is having a conversation regarding the efficacy and cost of Navigate. As I gather data regarding this tool (our extant one) and its alternatives, I would like to include thoughts from this community regarding such tools. If you have such thoughts to share here, or directly ...

RE: 🤔 Scheduling platform for tutoring

Posted By Joe Kennedy 06-28-2023 09:18:35 AM
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You may have an option within your LMS. Our Nursing Department uses the Choice activity in Moodle; students sign up for a limited number of simulation lab spaces, by time slot. As a bonus, since it resides within the LMS, it's in a familiar environment! ------------------------------ Joe Kennedy Instructional ...

RE: End of Course Evaluation (Survey) Options

Posted By Joe Kennedy 05-12-2023 01:44:36 PM
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Shanna: Our institution (~2000 FTE, U.S. undergraduate liberal arts college) uses Watermark Evaluation Kit. The system is integrated into our LMS (Moodle 4.0, but Watermark works with Blackboard). It provides for anonymous responses, has multiple controls and options, and this past semester, led to ...

RE: Lockdown Browser alternative

Posted By Joe Kennedy 05-02-2023 11:48:30 AM
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We are using Moodle 4.0, and implement Safe Exam Browser for in-lab and in-class use. Distance-learning instructors may choose to use SEB in conjunction with goReact; students launch their goReact recording, including screen capture, then launch SEB and proceed to take the test. Students report this ...

RE: Requesting info about Moodle UX and plugins

Posted By Joe Kennedy 04-24-2023 09:56:44 AM
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This is . . . interesting and scary. We not only use Quickmail, but Quickmail SMS, and they work well in Moodle 4.0 and, in fact, many faculty members rely on them. Joseph Kennedy, NBCT (AYA-Mathematics 2022) (he/him/his) Assessment theory and practice, instructional design, Universal Design ...

MFA for Learning Management System Access

Posted By Joe Kennedy 03-21-2023 03:49:00 PM
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As our institution considers various ways to be more secure, we have been asked if our LMS should / could be put "behind an MFA." So, we are looking for data from other institutions. Is access to your Learning Management System contingent upon a user's successful use of Multi-Factor Authentication? ...

RE: Assessment/Exam Software Information

Posted By Joe Kennedy 03-15-2023 02:36:32 PM
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We looked at this during the pandemic, and even though it was even more urgent then (we are primarily face-to-face), we decided against any commercial service. The primary reason was intrusiveness; quite a few of the service providers use algorithms to flag "suspicious behavior", and those algorithms ...

RE: Peer Evaluation tool for Presentation-based Assessment

Posted By Joe Kennedy 10-28-2022 10:14:36 AM
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Wow, that is super helpful, Rebecca - thank you. I'll add a comment about the tool, goReact, that you mention. Concordia College (MN) uses goReact for peer review, class presentations, music juries, and even research. While the site license is not cheap, if an individual instructor wants to use goReact, ...

RE: Gradescope

Posted By Joe Kennedy 08-19-2022 11:59:36 AM
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Moodle's STACK, CodeRunner, and several other plugins have similar functionality. The learning curve for faculty on STACK is relatively steep. Joseph Kennedy "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth; The world is too small for anything but love" – Revs. Dave & Kim Adams | send me email! ...

RE: Project Tracker for Course Development Processes

Posted By Joe Kennedy 08-05-2022 02:48:27 PM
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Concordia College (MN): we use the Planning tools within Teams. It's not a heavyweight planning tool but it sends reminders, is visible to whole team, and is easily editable (person, time, notes) Joseph Kennedy Instructional Designer, Concordia College 218.299.4778

RE: Moodle Course Templates

Posted By Joe Kennedy 08-04-2022 07:59:14 AM
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Concordia College (MN) is also working on this. One aspect looks like the following: The left-most button redirects to a File resource where professors drop their Syllabus; the right-most button redirects to the Announcements forum for the class. Faculty can edit the middle two buttons (although, inside ...

RE: Software for showing math work for an online courses

Posted By Joe Kennedy 05-27-2022 09:46:22 AM
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Hello Qin: Our faculty have tried a couple different things: Using Google Draw, students can show work on a whiteboard (if they have a touchscreen) OR they can show work on paper, and upload the image into Google Draw. We use the PoodLL plugin for our LMS; this allows students to record audio as they ...

RE: Badging within courses?

Posted By Joe Kennedy 04-22-2022 01:13:27 PM
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We have Moodle 3.9, and we also award badges directly within Moodle. The only frustration we have is the lack of a "Restrict Access" criterion regarding badges; it existed for a while but does not work with 3.9. The badges interface directly with badgr We did have to create an account with badgr ...

RE: Where does instructional design "live" in your institution?

Posted By Joe Kennedy 02-24-2022 10:06:42 AM
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Concordia College (MN) has one instructional designer - I report to the Executive Director of Information Technology Services, but am expected to work closely with the Director of the Library and the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs. ITS is housed under Academic Affairs.

Job Posting: Instruction and Online Learning Librarian

Posted By Joe Kennedy 02-15-2022 02:02:00 PM
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Concordia College’s Carl B. Ylvisaker Library is seeking an innovative and service-oriented librarian for the Library Faculty position of Instruction and Online Learning Librarian. The Instruction and Online Learning Librarian will contribute to the library’s investment in developing learning resources ...

RE: Wireless Presentation System Recommendations

Posted By Joe Kennedy 02-01-2022 10:02:34 AM
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Concordia College has had an excellent experience with Crestron AirMedia units. We use them in large lecture halls, all the way down to student group study rooms. The app can be linked to a local file containing the IP addresses and names of every unit on the network, so constituents can download ...

Re: Proctoring Software Tools

Posted By Joe Kennedy 11-01-2021 10:42:15 AM
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WE (Concordia College, MN private LA residential F2F focus ~1800FTE) use Safe Exam Browser in the Moodle LMS, configured to allow Zoom and goReact to function in the background. Some faculty use simply goReact to create a recording of the screen, plus audio-video, as deterrent. The most intrusive use ...

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