Summer 2020 Student Enrollments + Updates

Summer 2020 Student Enrollments + Updates

by Josh Manders -
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Instructors,

As of this morning, student summer 2020 enrollments are now syncing with your Moodle courses. By default, courses are not set to "show" to enrolled students and they will not have access to your course until you update the course visibility setting.

➡️  Here is a guide that will walk you through how to make your course visible to students.

Hint: To help you close out a previous course or to open an upcoming course you can follow our recommended Moodle course Start of Term and End of Term procedures.

🔖  Tip: Extending Student Access To Your Course

By default, students are unable to access completed courses. When a "course end date" has passed, the course is visually relocated from “Current Courses” over to a dated tab (i.e. 2020, 2019, 2018) inside Moodle's dashboard and the course is hidden from students before the next term begins. However, instructors can extend course access to specific individuals or the entire class. If an extension is given, manually adjusting the "course end date" may help avoid confusion from students. 

⚠️ Service Interruption: Summer Upgrade to Moodle v3.8

Our Moodle host will be performing a scheduled software upgrade on Thursday, July 9th from 12:30am to approximately 6:30am (PST). During this update, classes.lanecc.edu will be unreachable, intermittent and or slow to respond. Actual downtime is typically less than the hours allotted, but please plan accordingly. An additional notice will be sent out during the week as a reminder.

Moodle v3.8 adds a few new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Here’s what we’re most excited about:

Forums can now be graded instead of using the clunky rating system. If you use forums a lot, and like to grade participation, this feature alone might be a game changer! Other forum improvements include:

  • Display the entire discussion for a post being graded
  • Grading option to notify students or search for specific students
  • Exportable detailed summary report of student forum activity
  • A new experimental nested discussion view.

📚 Tutoring: Summer Hours & Updates

Monday - Thursday 10a - 1p and 1:30p - 4:30p
Evening Hours | Tuesday - Wednesday 5p - 8p

The Lane Support Hub for students will extend through the summer term.  All summer term students are enrolled in this free support space and can easily drop into our Zoom room, find links and handouts, and chat with and email tutors.

For more information, send an email to tutoring@lanecc.edu.

Instructor Resources, Support, and Best Practice Quick Links

ID Services Summer Workshops, Training and Projects

We are updating/adding new workshops and training throughout the summer. If you have an idea for a workshop or software training let us know at IDservices@lanecc.edu.

Are you teaching a remote course (COVID converted course)? Lane's Teaching Continuity Plan may help you with converting your course.

⛱️ Academic Technology Center’s Summer Hours

Zoom:  ATC Virtual Support (live virtual help)  | M-Th 10a-2p
E-mail: atc@lanecc.edu  | M-Th 8a-5p S-Su 10a-2p
Our help articles are available to you 24/7.

The ATC remains available to answer questions regarding your course delivery as well as help with software issues or other questions that may arise about your course. 

Why are you receiving these messages?

As part of Academic Technology’s mission to provide quality service and support to LaneCC instructors, we subscribe your account to a Moodle news announcements forum where we post important information on system disruptions, maintenance, new features, tips and training opportunities. If you are no longer teaching at LaneCC and wish to be removed, please email moodleadmin@lanecc.edu.

- Josh Manders, LMS Admin

(Edited by Moodle Admin - original submission Monday, June 15, 2020, 3:23 PM)