The purpose of this page is to help instructors quickly learn and apply the fundamentals of online teaching and learning.
Bucknell University Remote Labs (VMware Horizon) is a virtual computer lab. Click on this article for more information.
This article is designed to give you a high level overview of Gradescope and provide links to additional resources.
Information related to Mediaspace and Kaltura, our Bucknell multimedia streaming server.
Quick start guide for Moodle
A listing of academic technology available at Bucknell and supported by Library & IT.
General FAQ article about Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy.
Mediaspace includes the ability to make basic edits to a video that you've previously edited. Within the Launch Editor option you can, clip a media entry,
trim the beginning or ending of a media entry, or chop and splice portions out of your original video.
Instructions for how to create captions for multimedia within Mediaspace, using the Kaltura REACH service.
General help and FAQ for Digication.
An overview of ways to start improving the accessibility of all kinds of digital resources.
This article describes two examples of Moodle courses with structures that students particularly mentioned as highly effective.
Multimedia projects and resources offer opportunities to engage students in course content beyond traditional written assignments and in-class discussions. Several resources and projects are sampled throughout the article.
Frequently asked questions about Explain Everything and resources.
A description of flipped classroom, strategies for implementing flipped techniques, and resources for getting started.
A guide to logging in for the first time and setting up a Digication page for students.
An overview of how to get started using Glean note-taking software.
Instructions for printing when using Bucknell University Remote Labs on a Linux computer.
You can access Bucknell University Remote Labs (VMware Horizon) either through your browser or a client program installed on your local computer. Click on this article for more information.
This article will guide you through the steps required to start using Bucknell University Remote Labs (VMware Horizon).
These instructions explain how to add a Barnes & Noble First Day Course Materials link to your Moodle course.
These instructions explain how to add an "External Tool Link" in a Moodle course that goes directly to Gradescope.
This article explains how to upload your picture into your Moodle profile.
Instructions for logging in to Bucknell's WordPress and how to create a post for a course site.
Instructions for adding a streaming video to a Moodle course.
Instructions for adding a Teaching Assistant to your Moodle course.
This article explains how to add a recorded lecture file or other audio/video file to your Moodle course.
Add name pronunciation to your Moodle course.
This article explains how to add a "User override" in Moodle to give a particular student or students extra time on an exam.
Instructions for checking to see if a student is enrolled in a Moodle course.
Connect to Xanthus from off-campus
Instructions on how to add a Forum to a Moodle course to enable discussions among the students.
How to create, edit, and display a menu with the site elements of your choice in WordPress.
How to create a new WordPress site at blogs.bucknell.edu and choose your initial site settings.
Instructions on how to make a Turnitin assignment in Moodle.
Faculty and staff may wish to create a web page to share information about their scholarship, research, or teaching.
Instructions on how to add an Assignment to a Moodle course in order to receive student work.
The difference between categories and tags in WordPress posts and how to create both.
The difference between pages and posts in WordPress and how to create both.
This article explains how to see when a student last accessed your Moodle course.
Instructions for emailing students through Moodle.
This article explains how to find past courses in Moodle not currently on the main Moodle server.
Information for faculty and students who are interested in getting started with Tableau.
This article explains how to import an entire past Moodle course or parts of a past Moodle course into a current semester's course.
We create Moodle course shells for all courses listed in Banner, but the courses are hidden from students. These instructions explain how to make active courses visible to students.
This article explains how to move a topic area within a Moodle course by clicking, rather than by dragging.
These instructions explain how to post your Gradescope grades to your Moodle course if you are using the old LTI 1.0 method of connecting to Gradescope as an external tool..
This document provides instructions on how to record a lecture using Kaltura Capture.
This article describes how you would manually submit a student paper to Turnitin, after you have created a (hidden) Turnitin assignment in your Moodle course.
Instructions for setting up appointment slots for students or advisees in Moodle.
Instructions for viewing the photo roster in Moodle.
Changing sharing setting withing Digication
Instructions for students who need to submit an assignment in Moodle.
These instructions explain how to sync your roster between Gradescope and Moodle so that all your students have access to your Gradescope course. This applies to our previous method of linking to Gradescope as an External Tool (LTI 1.0)
You can obviously record student attendance in class using a paper chart or an Excel spreadsheet. However, Moodle’s Attendance Activity offers not only comparable features, but also several advantages over those possibilities. Click on this article for more information.
Instructions for undocking a block in Moodle
How to add new media, describe media, and use the Media Library in WordPress.
This article describes how to view the originality reports generated by Turnitin.
One of the most powerful features of Moodle is the Gradebook, in terms of its ability to handle multiple grading scenarios. Click on this article for more information.
This article explains how you can see on a single page all the posts by a student to the various forums in your Moodle course.
This article describes how to determine when a student clicked on a link for an assignment in Moodle and when that same student submitted the completed assignment to the course.
This article describes how to disable automatic subscriptions to Moodle forums when you post a message to that forum.
These instructions explain how to undock a block that has been docked intentionally or accidentally. When the Navigation block is docked, students often report that they can't find their grades. When the Current Course List is docked, the list of courses for the current semester is harder to find.
Instructions for undocking your blocks in Moodle so that you can view your courses or grades.
This article assumes that you have already read the related article, How do I create a Turnitin assignment in Moodle and/or have already added a Turnitin assignment to your Moodle course.
Moodle allows you to create groups of students in a course. Click on this article for more information.
Instructions for viewing feedback to assignments submitted via Moodle.
This article provides an overview of using iClicker as an audience response system in order to assess student understanding of key course concepts.
Instructions for uploading and publishing content in Mediaspace
an outline of the differences between channels and playlists, and how to create each within Mediaspace.
Instructions for finding comments in Turnitin.
Moodle enrollments tend to be one day behind Banner. Click on this article for more information.
Getting started guide for Overleaf.
General FAQ for Perusall including a description of the tool, how to access it, and where to go for help.
Instructions for recording student attendance.
Steps to follow before you start your classes online
Getting started with Replit, a browser based development environment for teaching and working with code.
a student guide to using Mediaspace, Kaltura Capture and information regarding the streaming server at Bucknell.
a How-To on using the Full Deck feature within Mediaspace to dynamically present PowerPoint slides or PDF's in the viewer for audiences to customize their view and present visually.
Creating Channels, adding members, and adding media with the channel feature in Mediaspace.
Instructions for using Kaltura Capture with Mediaspace
Instructions for using Kaltura Capture with presentation software
Instructions for using the mobile app for Mediaspace
This article explains how to use the new course template in Moodle.
This article explains the most frequently used weighting schemes in Moodle.
How to access your WordPress site after graduation, including managing additional editors and deleting unwanted sites.
This article gives an overview of how search engines work and gives some suggestions for improving your WordPress site's search engine rankings.
An overview of how to get started with WordPress at Bucknell.
How to use WordPress plugins and a list of commonly used plugins.