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Learn about Course Management at Wooster
Wooster offers several options that allow faculty to manage their courses: Moodle (our course management system), Confluence (our institutional wiki), and Voices (our WordPress Multisite instance). Which of these options is best for you depends on your goals for the course and what activities you plan on having your students do. Moodle: This is our…
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Site update
You may notice that the site looks a little different. I have changed the theme a little bit. I did a couple of things. First I changed the site over to the 24 column 960 Grid System. This makes it much easier to layout page templates and such. A side effect of this change is…
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Blogging in the curriculum
Wooster has recently gotten some notice for what Instructional Technology has been doing with the Voices blogging service. We are one of the first schools to begin making use of the new BuddyPress extension and specifically to make use of its group functionality. This semester we have a few professors making use of this new…
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Useful copyright tool
Determining whether a published work is protected by copyright can be very confusing. Was the work published before 1923, without the © symbol, was the copyright renewed? These are just a few of the things a faculty member must determine before distributing copies of a work to their class. Luckily there is a Web tool…
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Use Digital Images in a Course
Images are a powerful tool to engage students and enhance learning in the classroom. Faculty can integrate images from their research into lectures or place images in online course materials for students to explore, comment on, or use as a basis for a student research project. Online collections of images at Wooster or public sites…
