Tips and Updates

Add an attractive header image to your course

Add an attractive header image to your course

Moodle tends to be bland in appearance.  Follow the steps below to add some color and personality to your Moodle course by incorporating an attractive header to the course home page as in this example.  Find an image.  Search for images that convey the theme 

Create an inclusive and welcoming course page

Create an inclusive and welcoming course page

Include Contact Info Make it easy for students to access important information by including it on the Moodle course home page.  Include, for example, your contact information, office hours, Zoom meeting room links, etc.  See the example below. Link to Colgate Resources Help students connect 

Save Zoom video recordings to Panopto

Save Zoom video recordings to Panopto

We now have the capability to automatically transfer cloud-recorded Zoom videos to Panopto.  Save time when sharing Zoom recorded videos with your students by transferring them to Panopto and sharing them using a Panopto playlist.   Once a video is in Panopto, it can be quickly added to a Panopto playlist allowing you to 

Panopto Video replaces Ensemble Media Library

Panopto Video replaces Ensemble Media Library

Panopto replaces Ensemble as Colgate’s video hosting platform. Panopto is available in Moodle by (1) adding a Panopto activity to insert videos into your course, (2) adding a Panopto Student Submission activity to allow students to provide videos in response to an assignment or prompt, 

Conquer the Moodle scroll of death

Conquer the Moodle scroll of death

When I was learning Moodle, it didn’t take me long to start searching for a way to reduce the length of my course home page.  My research quickly revealed that the long list of Moodle topics and linked activities and resources is aptly referred to