Academic Technology

Feb 26, 2010

Moodle Express Workshop Available Online

We have a new Moodle workshop available online now - the Moodle Express: Top 5 Basics. This is a one hour workshop that covers...

Feb 12, 2010

Interactive Technology Facilitates Gender and Science Education

Elementary school kids were drawing their best version of Einstein, his hair sticking straight up, wearing a long white lab coat, holding a test tube filled with potent bubbling, green liquid. As the NCSU Distance Education (DE) students collected and showed these drawings, the kids recognized the drawings had one thing in common: the scientists…

Dec 21, 2009

New Themes in Moodle!

Give your course a fresh new look with one of the NC State themes now available in Moodle!

Dec 21, 2009

What’s New in Moodle? (12/2009)

We made several changes to the Moodle server during our most recent maintenance window. In brief, here are the changes: changed the URL to http://moodle.wolfware.ncsu.edu moved the server to a more robust clustered environment added several new NCSU based themes added enhanced course layout editing features added the Journal activity enabled the option for parts…

Dec 8, 2009

Get Your Grades in Early: WolfWare, Moodle and Vista Outages and Grade Submission Update(Archive)

Due to a critical set of hardware and software upgrades that are being performed over the winter break, two of NC State’s Learning Management Systems (LMSs)—WolfWare and Moodle—will not be available at some point during the grade submission window. Also, there will be a planned Blackboard Vista outage beginning December 21 at 5 pm. Please read…

Nov 30, 2009

Wimba Create (formerly Course Genie) license expiring

We are sorry to announce that Wimba Create (formerly Course Genie) will no longer be licensed for use at NC State. Wimba has moved to a site license only charging model and unfortunately, there is not enough use of the product on campus to justify the expense of maintaining a site license.

Nov 2, 2009

Report on the Moodle Moot, October 28-30, 2009, Orlando, FL

Dr. Martin Dulberg, Jeff Webster, David Howard, Greg Kraus, Jonathan Champ and I represented DELTA at the Moodle Moot (and Sloan-C) in sunny Orlando, Florida at the end of October. Because travel restrictions were part of DELTA’s budget cuts, we drove to Orlando in two cars and stayed at a donated timeshare property about three miles…

Oct 9, 2009

Elluminate upgrade on 10/10

During a scheduled LMS maintenance window this weekend, Elluminate will be upgraded to version 9.5. The most important changes to this version of Elluminate are: Improved stability and performance which will correct the problems we have been having with web service reliability. Switch to a different database for better performance and flexibility. Additionally, you’ll notice…

Aug 3, 2009

Moodle Article in The Technician

See Moodle moves in at: http://www.technicianonline.com/features/moodle-moves-in-1.1788039 To keep informed regarding the LMS transition on campus, see http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/LMS_Strategy

Jul 20, 2009

NC State to Migrate to Moodle Learning Management System

In April 2009, North Carolina State University’s Moodle Pilot Implementation Team submitted a recommendation to Dr. Thomas K. Miller III, Vice Provost of Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA), that the university transition from its two existing Learning Management Systems (LMSs)—Blackboard Vista and WolfWare—to a new, rewritten version of WolfWare that is built upon…