🍁 Fall 2024: One Week Away

🍁 Fall 2024: One Week Away

by Josh Manders -
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Instructors,

With the recent changes to course rollout procedures, Fall 2024 courses and enrollments are already syncing regularly with Moodle.

As a reminder, all courses are hidden by default. Instructors are required to manually update the course visibility setting when they are ready for students to gain access.

➡️ Here is a guide that will walk you through how to make your course visible to students. Follow our recommended Moodle course Start of Term and End of Term procedures to help you close out a previous course or to open an upcoming course.

If you don’t see your section listed, please check the class schedule to ensure your department administrator has added you as the instructor of record prior to contacting the ATC.

-Josh
LMS Admin

💥 New Instructor? 

Academic Technology Center (ATC) Help Documents: specific college LMS procedures and tips that the ATC makes available and keeps updated.
Moodle Training Resources
  1. MoodleHQ "Teaching Basics" YouTube Playlist – Our quick “go to” resource for those who need to get started ASAP. Watch a few videos and then ask for ATC assistance when you need it.
  2. Moodle Academy teaching “basics” is being regularly maintained and has the most updated support documents and training resources.
  3. Linkedin Learning Course “Moodle Basics” — not quite as dry and a bit friendlier than MoodleHQ's trainings. If you're already logged into classes.lanecc.edu you can jump directly to the Linkedin Learning Training without signing in.

⚠️ Update Your Zoom Client by October 1
Please update your Zoom client to version 6.0 (or higher) to ensure a secure and smooth experience for your classes and meetings. Users with older versions won’t be able to access Zoom meetings until they upgrade.

What You Need to Do:

  1. Update Zoom: Make sure you’re using version 6.0 or higher by following this quick guide.

  2. Check Your Version: Open Zoom, then go to Help > About Zoom to see your current version.

Many of you received a personalized email from the ATC with a list of zoom connected devices. The device list was based on access logs which may have included devices with older clients and/or devices you no longer own. Feel free to contact the ATC for any assistance and thanks for helping keep everything running smoothly!

🎓 What's New in Moodle v4.3

This summers upgrade (July 11th) included several highly anticipated feature improvements such as course item bulk editing (move, delete, duplicate), collapsible grade book columns & filters, activity indentation, smaller icons, course activity condensed layout, and more.

Key Highlights:

  • Course page position is retained when pressing back button from activity/resource (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
  • Attention LTI Tool users — External Tools requires initial setup through a new area! (Course > More > LTI External Tools). See LTI External tool improvements. It's been noted that some publisher connection processes no longer work as documented (instructors can no longer edit the Tool URL and will see a warning message if they attempt to edit).

For more details, visit the Moodle 4.3 Release Notes or visit the "What's New in v4.3" YouTube Playlist (2-3min video clips).

Have you sent in your Fall META course request?
Submit a meta course request (online google form) or email the ATC (atc@lanecc.edu) while you still have time.

➡️ For those new to Metacourses: a Metacourse allows you to combine enrollments from multiple course sections into a single Moodle course shell — reducing the need to duplicate resources, activities, etc. when you are teaching multiple sections or course sharing between multiple instructors.

ℹ️  Academic Technology Center (ATC) Support Fall Schedule
In-person: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm | Virtual (via Zoom): 10am-2pm
We are located in Center 208, down the hall from J&J Coffee Shop.

If you are no longer teaching at LaneCC and wish to be removed from this News & Announcements forum, email a removal request to moodleadmin@lanecc.edu