Every instructor using a course management system / learning management system (CMS/LMS) ends up discovering the various annoyances unique to the system. Some have more…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: LMS
For the last few weeks I have been eagerly waiting to start preparing online course shells related to my new university post. Unfortunately, I still…
People have asked me (okay, two people) what “Poet Ponders” is meant to be. What is my purpose? I now will attempt to clarify what…
On March 1, 2011, I wrote about the difficult state of the academic job market in fields such as mine: “digital rhetoric” and “new media”…
This weekend I installed WordPress on our personal server. The process took about two hours, including customization and tweaking beyond the basic installation. No great…
I still dislike the “pop-up” or “list” method for entering grades in Moodle. I could enter digits much faster; I hate being forced to use…
I went back to requiring weekly responses to readings and lectures after two semesters without the requirement. I know students always complained about weekly responses…
I have experienced two issues with Moodle that annoy me. One is inconvenient, the other is truly frustrating. The inconvenience doesn’t surprise me: the full-featured…
Students have submitted their first assignments via Moodle and are starting to use the Moodle-based Wiki system for group projects. I have a lot of…
Moodle is definitely proving to be more flexible and, sometimes, more efficient than Blackboard. I created five groups for class today in under 15 minutes,…