End of Academic Year Support and Summer Changes

2024年5月24日
By Wiebke Kuhn

As our academic year and spring term come to a close, please remember how you can connect with Academic Technology and how to limit access to content in your Moodle course. 


End of Term and Final Exams

Academic Technologists will be available by appointment throughout final exams and the submission of final grades

Even if you do not choose to connect with us, For Moodle quizzes, please consider these two points:

  1. 介绍 关于你的小测验, please remind students to SUBMIT the quiz at the very end (or it won’t record their efFort).
  2. 立即 after you know students are done with their final exam, please take a moment to go into Moodle to 验证 that all students submitted their quiz. If you see that a student did not submit a quiz, please submit it For them. 提交ting Unfinished Quiz Attempts on Behalf of 学生

Managing Access to Course Content after Final Exams

By default, Moodle courses remain accessible For students who were enrolled in a particular course. If you want additional security For the materials (quizzes, 作业, lecture notes) of a concluded course, please check out Moodle: Options For restricting student access with suggestions For hiding your Moodle course or making specific parts of your Moodle course invisible For your past students.


Getting Ready For the New Academic Year

7月15日:  的最后期限 For changes/additions to software in classrooms and computer labs. Please submit a Helpdesk ticket beFore July 15. Any requests that come in after July 15 may need to be delayed until Winter term, especially if the request requires purchasing and/or extensive testing For new software applications. You do not need to submit a request For existing software.


8月1日:  Deletion of  the oldest courses from the Moodle server, from the 2018-19 Academic Year. If you would like to save a copy of your course materials, we recommend that you create a backup file of your course and download that to your favorite file storage location. Instructions For how to create a backup file are available in this short video 或者这个 Knowledge Base article.

We also suggest you use your browser’s print function to save a visual copy of your 页面 as PDF so that you can quickly see how your Moodle course was organized. 


Summer Break and Planning Fall Courses

的 AT team will remain available via emails and through the ITS ticketing system throughout the break. 锐气 will offer support by appointment only; send an email to peps@85500171.com.  

If you want to have longer conversations around the pedagogical strategies of your 2024-25 classes, please consider reaching out to Jennifer Ross-Wolff, Director of the LTC, or Wiebke Kuhn, Director of Academic Technology. 

Teaching and learning 工具 and ideas about teaching and learning have been coming at us faster than in previous years — which of these lessons do you want to keep using? 

  • 变焦 办公时间? 
  • Online resources in Moodle to provide asynchronous learning opportunities?
  • More equitable grading using Gradescope
  • More interactive reading using 假说.is
  • More collaboration using 谷歌文档 and other 工具 in the Google suite?
  • Integrating strategies to use of 生成的人工智能 工具?

For additional flexibility, please also consider our web-based content: Moodle documentation 页, Teaching and Learning Service Catalog,我们的 Moodle Micro-Skills course (self enrollment). 的 LTC的页面 also have valuable inFormation.

Stay tuned For more opportunities in July For some workshops sponsored by the LTC and For announcements in August when everyone is starting to think about what technologies may be useful For fall term. This will include more opportunities to learn and practice with classroom technology.

If you are interested in a classroom technology refresher, please reach out to Paul Bernhardt or Wiebke Kuhn. 


Please remember: ITS will be making updates this summer to computers at some instructor stations and in some computer labs. 的 full list will be posted on the Classroom Technology Support 页面.

Remember that not all classrooms have an instructor computer, so check out your rooms in late August.