Teaching with Technology: Services for Instructors

Request Your Moodle Course

Instructors can now request Fall 2012 Moodle courses in SPIRE.

Moodle will replace SPARK (Blackboard Vista) as the Learning Management System (LMS) for campus-based courses at the end of this calendar year. While SPARK is available for teaching purposes through 2012, we strongly recommend that instructors use Moodle with their Fall 2012 courses. Requests for Fall 2012 SPARK courses will be approved under special circumstances.

Moodle Workshops

This May and early June, attend one of the Moodle workshop sessions Academic Computing will be offering:

• Getting Started in Moodle
• Converting a Course from SPARK to Moodle
• Assignments, Collaboration, & Feedback in Moodle
• Course Management and Communicating with Students in Moodle
• Questionnaires in Moodle
• Quizzing in Moodle

For more information and to register online, visit: http://etna.oit.umass.edu/public/workshops

Moodle Conversion Service

Instructors can sign up to have their SPARK course content migrated from SPARK to Moodle through a process provided by Remote Learner, a Moodle services company. For more details see SPARK to Moodle Conversion Service.

Want to learn more about Moodle?

You can learn more about Moodle and review our support documentation at: http://www.oit.umass.edu/moodle

For questions or help with your instructional technology needs from knowledgeable and patient consultants, contact the OIT Academic Computing Instructional Media Lab.

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