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Fall 2022 – Start of Semester

Courses Available

Fall 2022 Moodle Courses and enrollments are fully synchronized with Banner. If you don’t see a course in Moodle be sure that the Registrar has created it and assigned you as the professor (you should see it in the Portal). If you see this course in your Portal Dashboard report this to to ITSHelp@Colgate.Edu

By default, courses are not visible to students until the professor changes that setting One exception: Libraries Electronic Reserves will make your course visible when they add content.

Moodle Upgrade

Moodle was upgraded from v3.10 to v3.11 in June 2022.  Changes were minor.  See more information about v3.11 on the Summer 2022 Moodle 3.11 page.

Video Content Management using Panopto

Create new media using Panopto (https://colgate.hosted.panopto.com). Panopto is Colgate’s platform for uploading and sharing media content and includes screen recording tools for creating screencasts or micro lectures.

For those who used Ensemble/Anthem in the past, no new media can be created using Ensemble and all existing Ensemble links must be updated to Panopto share links which can be found in your Panopto My Folder > Ensemble Migrations. Contact us (ITSHelp@Colgate.Edu) for assistance and to report any missing content.

Find detailed information about using Panopto with Moodle.

Sensus/Access & Accessibility

Sensus/Access Document Conversion is a standard Moodle course activity that appears in every course. This document conversion utility allows faculty and students to submit course documents for conversion to alternative formats such as MP3 audio, plain text, tagged PDF, and others. SensusAccess is used frequently by students, so please do not delete the SensusAccess activity from your course home page.

More information about document accessibility in Moodle

Workshops / Support

A number of Moodle and related workshops will be offered during the coming months. See the workshop offerings (and check back occasionally since more offerings are likely). 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. Contact us through the Colgate Service Desk (itshelp@colgate.edu).

Additional self-help resources are available, including Colgate-specific instructions and tutorials at our Moodle Information Site: moodle-info.colgate.edu (which is where you are now!). Offerings include tutorial courses inside Moodle, such as Moodle Basics for Faculty.

Combining Courses (Self-Serve). If you’d like to use a single Moodle course for multiple sections of a class we continue to offer a self-serve option under the course Actions menu (gear icon in the upper right). See Instructions for merging courses. Note that we will rename the combination course shortly after you create it; don’t worry about the odd names shown in the tool. You may also send us a request to combine courses for you by emailing itshelp@colgate.edu and specifying the courses that you want to be combined.

Content Migration/Copy to New Courses (Self-Serve). See detailed instructions for migrating content from a previous course to a new course. Alternatively, you may request the migration to be done by ITS by completing the Moodle Content Migration Request web form.

Gradebook Setup. The Moodle Gradebook can be complicated; please contact us if you want some help configuring your course gradebook.

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

Spring Course Visibility. Spring courses remain visible to students until the end of June. You may hide the course earlier if you would like to do so, but ITS hides the full semester several months after the session ends. Professors will still be able to see and access these courses and can make them visible again if they wish.