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  1. Moodle: Take attendance

    The Attendance  activity enables teachers and students to record attendance (both during and after class) as well as students to view their own attendance.  Before you start , you may need the following: an Instructor of Record o...
  2. Zoom: Mirror an ipad in a classroom

    If you are using a tablet computer as part of a lecture, Zoom is your best option for sharing it with remote participants or including it as part of a recording. We recommend this rather than attempting to “mirror” the tablet to othe...
  3. Moodle: Set up a course gradebook

    Use the Gradebook to record grades for both Moodle and non-Moodle activities  (e.g., oral presentations) and display them to students (each student sees only their own grades). You can calculate category-level and final course grades...
  4. Zoom: Create meetings through Outlook

    Instead of scheduling meetings twice — once in Zoom and once in Outlook — use the Zoom add-in in Outlook/Microsoft365 to add Zoom links to your Outlook meetings. See also Zoom's articles on Scheduling meetings with the Outlook...
  5. Zoom: Create meetings

    There are a number of ways to schedule Zoom meetings. While you can create meetings through the Zoom activity in Moodle and the  Zoom add-in for Outlook/Microsoft365 , you can also schedule them directly in the Zoom app or on Zoom's w...
  6. Zoom: Create meetings for courses through Moodle

    Instructors can create and manage Zoom Meetings associated with a Moodle course using   the Zoom activity in Moodle . The advantages to using the Moodle Zoom activity instead of the Zoom web portal or desktop/mobile app are: Course...
  7. Office Lens: Scan papers or documents with your smartphone

    Particularly during remote teaching and learning, it is common for faculty and students to share a scanned version of a document or assignment for which they have a hard copy (e.g. notes, equations, handwritten work, etc.). Office Lens offers a ...
  8. Panopto: Record in your browser (Panopto Capture)

    Panopto Capture is a completely browser-based screen capture system that allows users to capture audio, video, and your device's screen or application windows. Panopto Capture works on mobile devices and is a good alternative to the Panopto...
  9. Zoom: Use registration to secure meetings

    Zoom is the college's recommended service for holding virtual public meetings. However, public meetings come with a risk: Zoom bombing. Zoom bombing occurs when an unwanted participant joins a meeting and disrupts it through inappropriate...
  10. Moodle: Download assignment to grade offline

    Did you know that you can download Assignment submissions in bulk to grade them and then re-upload the graded assignments back into Moodle? This works for with both anonymous grading (blind marking) and non-anonymous grading workflows. This...