Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS
Haverford College
Happy New Year! We hope you had an enjoyable and revitalizing break. Below are some tips, tricks, and reminders about Moodle to help you prepare for your spring classes—including a new format option for your course. Moodle is a great tool for sharing syllabi, readings, websites, and videos. You can also use Moodle to collect…
IITS is happy to present a new Moodle feature for spring 2023, the tiles course format. This format is great when you have a lot of content because it displays all sections efficiently on the page, as illustrated above. To use this new option: If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Do you need webcams, clickers/ laser pointers, USB microphones, HDMI adapters, or the OWL video conferencing system? Audio Visual Services and IDTS are excited to announce that we have stocked the VCAM Equipment Cage (VCAM 101B) with a number of frequently requested items such as Webcams, Presentation Clickers/ Laser pointers, USB Microphones, HDMI Adapters, and…
As the summer winds down, many of you are getting ready for Fall courses. Below are some tips, tricks, and reminders about Moodle. Moodle is a great tool for sharing syllabi, readings, websites, and videos. You can also use Moodle to collect and grade assignments, as well as provide online quizzes and tests. IDTS (part…
IDTS (Instructional Design and Technology Services) is offering workshops in July and August to help you prepare for fall classes. Please join us! We are also always happy to work with you individually to help you prepare for your courses or to provide help with a project within your course. Email hc-techlearn@haverford.edu. July 12 (Tue):…
Moodle.haverford.edu for 2022/2023 academic year is now live! This version (running on Moodle 3.11) is very similar to the Moodle 2021/2022 version, but there are a few changes and new features: Learn the preferred pronouns of your course participants New options to see if students are keeping up with coursework If enabled, new tools for…
(This information was emailed to Haverford faculty and included in the Daily Digest) Monday, May 23, 2022, IITS will archive all Panopto recordings more than one year old that have not been viewed by anybody during the past year. While archived videos are still available, they are slightly harder to find and access. This FAQ…
New for the 2022/2023 academic year, Moodle lets you quickly see your students’ preferred pronouns in the participant list, the roster report, and the individual profiles. How do preferred pronouns get into Moodle? Bionic and Workday now collect pronoun information. During the summer of 2022, and periodically thereafter, this pronoun information will be uploaded to…
Happy new year! IITS wishes you a happy and healthy 2022. With the spring semester starting soon, below are some tips, tricks, and reminders about Moodle. Moodle is a great tool for sharing syllabi, readings, websites, and videos. You can also use Moodle to collect and grade assignments, as well as provide online quizzes and…
In an effort to maximize security, Zoom recently made a change to their API that affects certain users within our community who schedule Zoom meetings from their Google calendar. Specifically, this change affects people who use Google to schedule Zoom meetings for other Haverford users through what Zoom calls “scheduling privileges”. The adjustment that Zoom…
