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  1. Moodle: Create and manage assignments

    Use the Assignment activity to enable students to electronically submit work individually or as a group and/or  grade student work "blindly." Electronic file submission is optional -- some instructors also create Assignments for offline...
  2. Moodle: Message course participants

    Instructors have three options for communicating with participants in a class: Announcements, Quickmail, and Messaging. This article explains how they work and when to use them.  Before you start , you may need the following: an Instructor o...
  3. Panopto: Collect audiovisual assignments

    Panopto provides a few different methods for students to upload audio and video recordings as part of a class assignment or project. Each method has different the pros and cons that you should consider when choosing which to use. Befo...
  4. Zoom: Chat, reactions, and polls

    While Zoom allows you to talk with those in other spaces, it also brings the risk of people talking over each other. This is especially true if a meeting is large or participants are dealing with technical issues. Thankfully, Zoom provides ways...
  5. Moodle: Create and grade Quizzes

    Despite the name, the Quiz activity can be used to design any kind of online formative or summative assessment , from a tutorial with instant feedback to an exam in which feedback is withheld until the close of the exam period. Many quest...
  6. Moodle: Create checklists for students

    Use Checklist to create a checklists, to-do lists, or task lists for students to work through. Checklists can help instructors and/or students keep track of students' progress in a course and can be particularly useful when students are working ...
  7. Zoom: Multiple cameras

      During a Zoom meeting, you may want to use a second camera. This will allow you to remain on-camera while showing something relevant to what you're discussing, such an artifact or lab demo. Some classrooms also have multiple cameras, one which...
  8. Domain of One's Own: Migrate content when you leave Bryn Mawr

    How to migrating your Domain of One's Own content before you leave Bryn Mawr College
  9. Shipping devices to LITS

    Shipping your device is a last resort  and is only done when a College-provided device is suffering a time-sensitive issue and is agreed upon by a LITS technician. This article reviews when and how to do so, when necessary. See also: ...
  10. Moodle: Log in

    Bryn Mawr College's Moodle   site hosts all academic courses taught at Bryn Mawr and some non-academic Moodle courses that campus departments create for other purposes, such as workshops, advising, or collaboration. In most cases, you will...