Getting Started with VoiceThread
Adding a course view link
Moodle and Integrated Tools
Our Learning Management System
Moodle
Moodle is our learning management system–a hub for course materials, digital textbooks, handing in assignments, quizzes, and engaging with other students and faculty, among many other things.
Moodle is also integrated with other learning tools like VoiceThread, Perusall and H5P (see below).
Building Rich Interactive Content
H5P
H5P is a media-rich authoring tool now built into Moodle, and accessible from the activity chooser. With H5P, instructors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, and more.
Record and Respond
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is an sharing and collaboration tool that enables faculty and students to build online presentation with images, documents and video. It also allows asynchronous discussion of that media through voice, video and text comments.
Linking to a single VoiceThread
Adding a VoiceThread Link to Moodle
Social Annotation
Perusall
Perusall is a social annotation platform that allows students to comment on and discuss course materials together online. It integrates directly with our Moodle, our learning management system. You can create assignments, assess comments in a variety of ways, and even give students quizzes or have them upload their own writing or research materials.
One important note: Perusall recently introduced Course Choice, which requires you to set the cost to students when you first configure a course. This cost can be set at $0. You’ll also be prompted to pledge to share the word about Perusall, which you can also safely opt out of.
Getting Started with Perusall
An overview of how to create a course, upload materials, and configure your gradebook. (Though the video presents different options, you’ll always want to access Perusall through Moodle, and have your students do the same.)
Gradebook Setup
The platform gives you a range of grading options: from grading manually to allowing the tool’s analytics engine to automatically grade student comments. The gradebook helpfully integrates directly with Moodle. (If privacy is a concern, analytics can be turned off completely at the course level. Perusall, a company founded by educators, pledges not to sell data.)
Student Upload Folders
A newer feature in Perusall allows student to upload their own materials, which might be useful for peer workshops, for students to share research findings, or even as a grading tool with which you can give students feedback on their papers.