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Moodle, a Course Management System Option

The CALS, in collaboration with the College of Engineering (CoE) has made Moodle, an open-source course management system, available to CALS faculty and staff.

Information on developing a Moodle website for your course.

Funded by a 2009-10 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) grant, a team of trained graduate and undergraduate students worked with faculty/staff instructors to create a Moodle web site for their course, which helped them achieve their objectives for students. The team, based in the College of Engineering, addressed instructors’ teaching goals and challenges, shared solutions across CALS, CoE , Intro Bio 151/152, Biocore, and selected introductory courses in Chemistry and Physics. The team has developed materials to help instructors use Moodle effectively in their courses.

Also funded by the 2009-10 TEL grant, select courses in Intro Bio 151/152, Biocore, Chemistry, Horticulture, and Physics participated in the development and implementation-testing of a new tool, Feedback Manager. Feedback Manager enables instructors to ask open-ended questions and provide semi-personalized feedback, all on-line. The basics of Feedback Manager were originally developed through a 2008-9 TEL grant to CALS. The Feedback Manager development team works together with Engineering to make this tool and supporting materials available to all Moodle users.

More information on Feedback Manager.