Teaching Strategies
Capture the Energy: 5 Tips for the Beginning of the Semester
Instructional Technologist Kerri Brown Parker is an educator with over 20 years of experience. She understands the importance of your first impression at the beginning of each semester and shares practical tips to help you start strong. She also highlights tools you can use to bring these tips to life in your classroom or on your website!
Accessibility Tip: Making Hyperlinks More Accessible
Hyperlinks are an easy way to link students directly to useful internal and external resources, and it is common to see hyperlinks in digital course materials and communication. However, hyperlinks can cause accessibility problems for some students if they are […]
Teaching Tech Tips: Use Moodle Gradebook Categories
DELTA Instructional Technologist Kerri Brown Parker shares Teaching Tech Tips each month to help streamline your tech skills.
WolfWare News ~ January 2023
WolfWare is NC State’s enterprise suite of academic technologies and tools that provide instructors, students and staff with a cohesive online environment for course enhancement and delivery.
Spring to Action: DELTA Spring Workshops Now Open
Join DELTA’s spring workshops to learn how the newest instructional tools can be used with your course content to foster student success! A social annotation tool called Perusall and IntelliBoard, a learning analytics dashboard tool are just a few of the topics covered. Overviews and in-depth sessions will be offered on most tools.
Using IntelliBoard Reports to Gather Student Moodle Data
A new analytics tool is now available for instructors in Moodle! IntelliBoard — a data visualization tool that displays reports of student Moodle data — provides additional insight into your Moodle course, including how your students are progressing.
Teaching Tech Tips: Stealth Activities in Moodle
Have you ever wanted to link to a Moodle activity like a quiz or feedback survey from within a Page, NC State Book, or another resource? Reduce the scroll and connect content to activities with Stealth Activities!
Accessibility Tip: Literacy Support for Deaf Learners
Did you know many deaf individuals consider American Sign Language (ASL) to be their first/primary language? They often face many of the same challenges as any other English language learner. While captioning is a common solution, sometimes it is at a higher reading level than the average Deaf student is comfortable reading.
DELTA Team Members Attend Global Conference
Members of the DELTA team attend the Global Moodle Moot conference in Barcelona, Spain and have four proposals about NC State’s migration to Moodle 4.0 accepted. They share their thoughts about the interesting presentations and workshops.
DELTA Grant Used to Create Spanish Dialect App
How do you help students discern multiple dialects when learning a new language? Lecturer Inma Navarro, with the NC State Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, received a DELTA Grant to develop a better way for students to hear native speakers from different regions.