Faculty, join us for workshops! See our August Ed Tech Workshops post.

Students

• Moodle courses that have been made visible by your instructor display under “My courses.” See image below for details.
• To tidy your list of Teams, you can hide Teams you are not actively using
• If your class is meeting via Teams, learn how to join a meeting in a Teams Channel
• Need help with a media project? Digital Media Assistants are available in the Library. You can schedule an appointment with them for an in-person or Teams meeting.

Faculty

Classrooms

Are you teaching in a new space this semester? See our post on In-person Classes to familiarize yourself with equipment. In-room consultation appointments are available.

Moodle

• Review the content in the email announcement Fall 24 courses available in Moodle and class teams.
• Review the Ready to Launch Your Course checklist.
• Your Moodle courses are displayed under “My courses.” See image below for details.
• Make your Moodle course(s) visible (when ready) for students.
• Enroll in the Moodle Professional Development Course (hosted in the Training instance of Moodle) and explore features you are thinking of using.
• Get the basics for Moodle from our Moodle Basics Handout.

Bookings

Microsoft Bookings is a service that allows you to create bookable appointments such as office hours. See our article Use Bookings to Schedule Meetings for more information.

• You can create custom meeting types.
• Both you and the attendee receive an email confirmation.
• Attendees can update or cancel scheduled meetings.

“Bookings with me”

• Please note that ‘Bookings with me’ is NOT the same as “Microsoft Bookings”
• ‘Bookings with me’ is a web-based personal scheduling page that integrates with the free/busy information from (only) your Outlook calendar to allow people to schedule a meeting or appointment with you.

“Microsoft Bookings” is designed for a team or department.

• If you already have “Microsoft Bookings” setup, you are welcome to continue to use that setup to offer students a way to book appointments such as office hours.

Teams

• Review the Ready to Launch Your Course checklist
• Recorded Teams meetings are stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.
  • The recording will appear in the chat after the meeting.
  • Channel meeting recordings are stored in the Team’s SharePoint.
  • Standard calendar meeting recordings are stored in the OneDrive of the person who recorded.
• If you schedule meetings to your Team’s channel, add a channel calendar to your Class Teams so everyone can see when channel meetings are scheduled.
• Read our information on Teams: Microsoft Teams, Teams Meetings, Class Teams.

To communicate with students that you will be using the Team, consider: 

• Adding an Announcement to the General Post
• @mention the Team name (sends an alert to all members) 
• Link to your Moodle course

If you are NOT using your Class Team

• Simply do not Activate it. Students can’t see it.
• If you activated the team but don’t intend to use it:
  • Students can see it, but you cannot delete it (the automated process that creates the Team prohibits it being deleted).
  • Owners can’t hide a team from members.
  • Team members can hide Teams they are not actively using, but only for themselves. Invite students to Hide the team.
  • You can change the Team name to clarify.

How Moodle courses display

Need Help?

• Educational Technology staff is available for consultations to help with Teams, Moodle, and more.
• Help Desk Support from 8:30AM-5PM, M-F, 330-287-4357 (xHELP) or email helpdesk@wooster.edu. You can also book a virtual appointment with Technology Services.