Spring 2022 – End of Semester

As we end another semester, we offer these thoughts for those professors using Moodle:

You might also be interested in Start-of-Semester Moodle Reminders for Faculty. 

Moodle Upgrades – Moodle will be upgraded to version 3.11 in early June 2022.  There are only a few new features that are introduced in 3.11.  More information about the new features can be found in this video, What’s new in Moodle 3.11 | Overview (2:37 min.) and in this news release, Moodle 3.11: what’s new in the latest release of Moodle LMS.

Fall Moodle Courses. Fall 2022 courses will become available in May.  All courses and enrollments are synchronized with Banner overnight and during each user’s login. Your courses will not be visible to your students until you (or Libraries’ Electronic Reserves staff) change that setting.

Content Migration/Copy to New Courses. Although many faculty do this themselves (How to: course content migration), we’re happy to assist with copying your course content for next semester. Please request using this web form.

Grades Backups. Please consider creating personal backups (Exports) of your grades, especially at the end of the semester. See our Grades Backup instructions, or if you need help, please contact us.

Combining Courses. If you’d like to use a single Moodle course for multiple sections of a class we are now offering a self-serve option under the course Actions menu (gear icon in the upper right). Instructions are available here. Note that we will rename the combination course shortly after you create it; don’t worry about the odd names shown in the tool.

Also feel free to send us a request to do this for you itshelp@colgate.edu, specifying the courses you want combined..

Spring Course Visibility. Spring 2022 courses will remain visible to students until June 2022, although you can also hide the course earlier if you like.

New Faculty may want to review our Moodle Administrative Overview page.

Learning Moodle.  We provide self-help resources, including Colgate-specific instructions and tutorials at our Moodle Information Site:  moodle-info.colgate.edu.

Support. We are also most willing to meet individually with you to hear about how Moodle can better meet your instructional needs, discuss features, or work together on new course activities. Please feel free to contact the Colgate Service Desk at itshelp@colgate.edu or Robin Bridson (rbridson@colgate.edu).

Electronic Course Reserves. The Colgate Libraries use your Moodle course for Electronic Course Reserves. See the eReserves web site for details.

For start-of-semester information check here.