Come join us after the holidays for workshops to kick off the Spring Semester! Steve Flusberg and Keith Landa have scheduled a series of pedagogy and instructional technology topics that you can use in planning your spring courses. This is a great way to reconnect with colleagues, have an opportunity to talk about teaching and learning, and check out new tools for engaging with your students. Please click on the links below to register for any (or all!) of the workshops that you’re interested in.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips to help you get organized as the new semester approaches!

As of Fall 2020, Student Projects (i.e. Senior Projects, Capstone Papers, and Master’s Theses) will no longer be submitted to the Library via Moodle. All Student Projects will now be submitted in MyHeliotrope.

Our Moodle instance has been upgraded to Moodle version 3.9.

Faculty / Instructors: Join our Moodle drop-in Zoom room (please use your Purchase College-affiliated Zoom account; room login details below) any time from 2pm - 4pm EST on Tuesdays & Thursdays for help with Moodle Basics. Last day of Fall 2020 Moodle Office Hours is Thu, Dec. 3.

Several faculty members have recently reported an issue with saving grades and feedback in Moodle while using Google Chrome as well as difficulty creating a basic Moodle Assignment activity using any web browser. Here are some ways to address these concerns until updates are released.

University at Buffalo Center for Educational Innovation, Tuesday, January 26, 9 a.m. – Noon. Details and registration: https://bit.ly/lessonslearnedconf

Save the Date: May 24-28!  Call for abstracts now open, due 31 December.

Our apologies for the increased traffic to your inboxes; the last thing we want to do is send out Moodle spam.

Join Eric Mazur, co-founder of Perusall, for a one hour session as he demonstrates how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. Dates below. Register now for Perusall! These are official Perusall webinars.

Update from Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) on resources available to support remote instruction efforts.

In the event of an emergency, the ability to teach courses on campus may be affected. The COVID-19 Remote Teaching Resources Guide and workshop series will help you identify and become acquainted with alternatives to face-to-face instruction for use during situations when teaching must take place remotely.

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) is providing trial access to Ally (stylized as A11y), a tool in Moodle that helps enhance the usability and accessibility of course documents.

Develop a better understanding of the HyFlex Learning Model during this week-long series of webinars Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, hosted by the SUNY CPD. Register now for HyFlex!

SUNY Online is committed to supporting campuses as they plan for an uncertain and unprecedented fall semester. The SUNY Online Teaching unit has developed a portfolio of resources in a variety of modes to best fit institutional or individual needs. SUNY Online is offering a monthly webinar series that will provide an overview of the various resources developed to support you through this semester and beyond. Register here for “Back to School” Teaching Webinar Series.

SUNY Faculty Development Conference: Teaching & Learning for Student Success Virtual Conference / October 19 - 23, 2020. Conference materials and session recordings are now available.

Stay current in today’s rapidly changing world and equip yourself with tools to adapt to online and hybrid learning.

Upcoming official VoiceThread workshops. Topics include VoiceThread basics and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

This comprehensive training webinar (offered multiple dates/times listed below) is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.

Upcoming programming opportunities to help faculty design Fall 2020 courses. Look for more announcements from the TLTC about SUNY and Purchase programs in the coming weeks!

The SUNY Remote Teaching Institute is designed to help faculty prepare for a Fall 2020 semester that may present unique challenges to course design and delivery. The Institute begins on June 22. Registration is now open!

Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, the Purchase College Library will be closed as of Friday, March 20 at 4pm. We will notify the campus when we reopen.

Summary, session recording, and slides presented at TLTC faculty workshop to review the Open SUNY Course Quality Review rubric (OSCQR) held on Tue, November 19, 2019. The workshop highlighted a number of OSCQR standards and put them into context relating to the Community of Inquiry model, Chickering and Gamson’s 7 Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, and Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain.

Information about SUNY OER funding and Open Educational Resources you can use for your courses.

New and returning faculty/instructors: please join the TLTC and Library for our Fall 2019 Teaching & Learning Day workshop series on Wed, August 21 and Thu, August 22 at 1:00pm-4:00pm at the Purchase College Library.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips to help you get organized as summer sessions get underway!

Effective April 1, physical Library reserves are no longer processed through Moodle. All Library reserve requests must be submitted via online form(s) on the Library’s website.

Deborah Amory, Professor at SUNY Empire State College, is seeking participants in the creation of an introductory level LGBTQ Studies OER text in 2019. This open textbook will focus on the study of LGBTQ issues and culture from an interdisciplinary, social science perspective. It will include key documents and multimedia resources, emphasizing an intersectional, feminist analysis.

Details about important changes coming to Turnitin Activities in Moodle. Please note: Turnitin will be unavailable on Sat., January 5, 2019, 11:00am-7:00pm due to scheduled maintenance. More at Turnitin System Status.

SUNY’s annual Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT) was held at Purchase College, May 28-31, 2019! Thanks for a great conference!

If classes are cancelled and/or there is a weather emergency that prevents access to campus, there are a number of tools and resources available to engage students using Moodle!

New faculty members: welcome to Purchase College, from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)!

This only affects faculty who have had courses on the original Moodle server (Spring 2009 through Spring 2012).