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  1. 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...
  2. 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 que...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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...
  5. 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
  6. 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: ...
  7. 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...
  8. Moodle: Take online quizzes and exams

    If taking tests is stressful, taking them online can be even more so! This article explains how the Moodle Quiz activity works and some best practices for ensuring the smoothest experience. Note: we're using the word "Quiz" below since t...
  9. Panopto: Get and log into your account

    Panopto is  an  online, lecture- capture and video-streaming platform  that   Bryn Mawr students,  faculty, and  staff can use to crea te, host, and share streaming video and audio files . It works much like YouTube , but...
  10. Moodle: Guest access to courses

    Enabling Guest access for a course gives view-only access to people who are not enrolled. This can include people who do not have Bryn Mawr or Haverford credentials , who can log into our Moodle site as guests to access guest-accessible cou...