Technology How-To

Course Management and MCC Systems

MCC Systems:

• How to update your classes on the MCC current online course schedule page
• How to upload and download files to the MCC server from any computer
• Karen Korstad: Uploading to MCC’s server from your computer (Windows) [download WinSCP here]
• Uploading to MCC’s server from your computer (Mac) [download Fugu here]
• Lisa M Lane: Creating and Editing Your MCC Home Page (or any web page, for free)

Moodle-specific tutorials:

• Redirect from Bb
  • Lisa’s tutorial on changing Blackboard settings to send students to Moodle
  • Lisa M. Lane: Adapting Blackboard 9 to point to another CMS or site

• Settings
  • Lisa’s tutorial on changing your settings in Edit Profile (including how to stop all
    those emails and upload your photo)
  • Pilar Hernández: How to make Blackboard 9 act more like Moodle

• Forums
  • Lisa’s tutorial on setting up a forum
  • Lisa’s tutorial on how to allow students to upload images to a forum

• Quizzes and Tests
  • Lisa’s tutorial on creating a quiz category (question pool) and quiz using an uploaded text file (Aiken format)
  • Lisa’s tutorial on how to remove the time limit for particular students on particular quizzes (extended time testing)

• Backing Up
  • Lisa’s tutorial on backing up a course with all users
  • Backing up your whole class (Quicktime video, same as above but in .mov format)

• Captivate
  • Karen Korstad’s tutorial on adding your Captivate files to run in Moodle

Lisa M. Lane: Why I Like Moodle (5 minutes)

Blackboard-specific tutorials:

Karen Korstad has set up tutorials for every need in Blackboard 9. Please see the Blackboard Learning Modules at the Bb POT site by signing into Blackboard.