Blackboard Learn Ultra is not Blackboard, at least not the familiar Blackboard Learning Management System I’ve used for many years. Though the changes might seem…
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Tag: Moodle
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
For the last few months I have been working on a new website for the Military Writers Society of America. The goal was to create…
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…
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 recorded grades and the end is near. The last day of class was May 4, 2010. Teaching is over for me, for now. The…
In the last few days, I have noticed what might be called an “explosion” of activity on the forums for my writing class. With 23…
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…