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  1. WordPress: Moderating Comments (and spam) in WordPress

    If your WordPress blog has comments turned on, you’ll need to know a few things about how to manage them: Approving comments, getting rid of spam comments, and adjusting your comments settings. Approving Comments As a blog administrator,...
  2. LinkedIn Learning: Create and share playlists

    LinkedIn Learning enables you to create video playlists -- called "Collections" -- and share them with others. You can use Collections to recommend a set of videos or courses that are relevant to on a particular topic to your students ...
  3. Remote Learning, Teaching, and Work: Suggested Computer Accessories

    This article overviews some basic computer accessories suggestions for students, faculty, and staff in remote work and learning environments. All prices are from the time of writing and are thus subject to change. Audio-visual equipment Upgrad...
  4. Moodle: Manage Class Recordings with Panopto

    There are several ways to manage class recordings with the Panopto integration  in Moodle. The easiest way for your class to interact with class recordings is to upload the video in the course folder directly, but there are a few different m...
  5. Moodle: Workshop

    The workshop activity enables the collection, review, and peer assessment of students' work. This can be done whether students submit through Moodle's text editor or by attaching files. Before you start , you may need the following: a...
  6. Moodle: Add or change your photo

    By default, Moodle places an icon next to a user's name. Depending on the context, that icon can contain the first letter of a user's first name, the first letter of their first and last name, or the silhouette of a person. However, Moodle...
  7. 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 work...
  8. 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...
  9. Moodle: Student Journals

    Although Moodle does not have a purpose-built journal activity, you can use the OU Blog Activity in Moodle to create individual journals that your students can post to over time.  Before You Start , you will need access to the followi...
  10. Moodle: Create a questionnaire

    The Moodle Questionnaire  activity allows you to survey Moodle course participants for the purpose of gathering information. Questions do not have a “right” answer (as they must in Quiz), and responses can be anonymous or identif...