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Student support

Training and consultations

• Technology training services
• Consultation services

Technology training services

OIT provides free Moodle training courses for course instructors/designers. You can also inquire about custom group training by calling 612-625-2005 or sending an email to uttc@umn.edu

You can sign up for the following courses - list of all Moodle training courses and materials at UTTC website

• Orientation - Review schedule/Enroll
  • seminar format (not a hands-on course), instructor-led; 1 hour
  • This course will provide broad overview of an online course management system for course instructors and site designers
    • If you cannot attend it, please watch Student Orientation instead and then review our online userguides

• Basics - Review schedule/Enroll; Download workbook (pdf)
  • hands-on, instructor-led; 3.5 hours
  • Participants will learn how to build a basic site containing course content (syllabus, ppt, word documents, links) and collaborative activities (forums and glossaries)

• Assignments and Quizzes - Review schedule/Enroll; Download workbook (pdf)
  • hands-on, instructor-led; 3.5 hours
  • Participants will learn how to create and modify Quizzes; work with different question types; review, reset, and reply to submission attempts; and grade the different types of quiz questions. Participants will also learn how to create different types of Assignments.

• Grades - Review schedule/Enroll; Download workbook (pdf)
  • hands-on, instructor-led; 3 hours
  • Participants will learn how to set up and manage a gradebook, enter and change grades for various activities, and use scales for providing non-numeric qualitative feedback.
    

• Collaboration - Review schedule/Enroll; Download workbook (pdf)
  • hands-on, instructor-led; 3.5 hours
  • Participants will review, create, and manage group activities, use the Choice tool to create simple polls, use the Database tool to build publicly searchable collections of user entries, and add Wikis for collaborative authoring of web pages.

Consultation services

Office of Information Technology (OIT) consultants are available to help faculty, staff, and students, without charge, identify and plan how to effectively apply digital technologies in support of University research, teaching, engagement, administrative, and business needs.

Please visit Consultation Services site for more information.