Teaching Tech Tip

Jul 29, 2025

Build Community From “Hello”: Course Introductions

Student introductions are more than icebreakers; they’re an opportunity to foster connection, reduce anonymity, and humanize your course. Multimedia tools like Padlet, VoiceThread, and Moodle Forums give students creative ways to express themselves and begin forming community from day one. Padlet Best for quick, visual and creative sharing. Here are some tips and ideas using… 

Jul 3, 2025

Moodle Checklist and Moodle Course Roadmap

If your students ever feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start, Moodle has two tools that can make a big impact on their organization, motivation and progress tracking: Moodle Checklist and Moodle Course Roadmap. 

Jun 2, 2025

Take a Summer Stroll Through New Tools and Ideas

This summer, take a moment to explore new ways to refresh your course — whenever and wherever it works for you. Whether you’re enjoying a quiet afternoon, hanging out at the pool or finding pockets of time between projects, it’s a great season to build your skills and experiment with tools that can enhance your… 

Sep 26, 2024

Do More with Moodle!

The Instructional Support and Training Team at DELTA is ready to work with you on using Moodle for creative and advanced purposes to engage your students in learning, organize your course in a new way, and so much more! But we’d also appreciate your feedback on our instructional technology tools. Use the links on this… 

Mar 27, 2024

New Student Accountability Features with Panopto Videos!

The recent upgrade to Panopto introduces new opportunities for enhancing student accountability in Moodle courses. Instructors now have greater flexibility in assigning grades to students for Panopto videos. 

Feb 29, 2024

Updated Moodle Quick Start Course Shell: Simplify Setups

The Quick Start Course Shell has been updated! The shell offers a course framework based on research-based best practices for course components and organization. You can view the new Quick Start Course Shell on the Preview Server and learn more about using this tool from the Quick Start Course Shell User Guide. If you’d like… 

Jan 29, 2024

Use the Moodle Feedback Activity to Poll Your Students

Want to increase student success in your course? Use Moodle Feedback Activity to poll your students around the middle of the semester. This offers time for adjustments in course content based on the student experience 

Nov 22, 2023

Grade Me: A Shortcut to Finding What Needs to be Graded

Add the new Grade Me block to individual courses or the Moodle Dashboard to get quick access to Moodle Assignments and Moodle Quiz Essay questions that have been submitted but not yet graded. If you add it to the Dashboard, you will see what needs to be graded across all of your courses. You can… 

Sep 26, 2023

When is it Due???

Surveys are often conducted to discover how we can foster student success. In a recent survey, students reported that in order for them to succeed in classes, they need due dates that are clearly communicated.  Adding dates to assignments, quizzes, and other interactive activities is a common practice. However, you can also add “expect completed… 

Aug 22, 2023

ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing! AI — Oh My!

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT can simplify and enhance academic work by automating content creation, providing personalized feedback, assisting in writing course objectives, summarizing course content and more.  Using generative AI tools in education by students and instructors is also a controversial topic leading to lots of conversation and concern about ethics, what…