Enrolling students and guests in your Moodle course

Nothing fancy, but here’s a few quick videos that will walk you through setting up Enrollment codes, enrolling students in your course, and allowing Guest access to your Moodle course.

Step 1: Set up a Student-Enrollment code for you course

Step 2: Have students log into Moodle (with their Novell logins and passwords) and join your course with the Enrollment code

Step 3: If you choose, you can also allow “Guest Access” for your course. Guests won’t be able to post to forums, take quizzes, see grades, or other activities in your Moodle course, but Guests can see the topics, labels, and resources you add to your course. Guest Access is not required.

Please let me know if you have any questions as you start your Moodle course. We’ll add to this collection of Moodle tutorial videos throughout the year.

October’s Tech “Thursdays”: Google Search Strategies

Here’s my “google search story” as a preview for next week’s Tech Thursdays on better search strategies.  If you want to learn more about improving google search for you and your students (or if you want to learn how to make a “google search story” video as a teaser for your next unit) stop on by the ITRT office next week.

How technology has changed in the last 10 years

When I arrived at CHS in 1999, teachers were thrilled to have a desktop computer in each classroom (for the first time) and a set of iMacs in the computer lab in the library.

A lot has changed in 10 years:  projectors and Smartboards in every classroom (K-12), dozens of laptop carts available for classes (with more on the way), iPod touches, clickers, eReaders (Nooks and Kindles), iPads, etc…

This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade

This picture and article on Gizmodo is a nice reminder of these changes.  Amazing how much more power students have in their pockets today than we had as our desktop machine 10 years ago–now it’s up to us to find better ways to harness these technological advances for student learning.

(pic from this Gizmodo article: http://gizmodo.com/5647399/this-is-how-much-apple-has-changed-in-a-decade)