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.