We are the Program for Online Teaching, a group of volunteer faculty helping other faculty teach better online.

Our focus is on pedagogy as the guiding force for using technologies for teaching.

Many of us are from MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California. MiraCostans may access the Teaching/Technology Innovations Center for technical help, resources, news and more.

COOL TOOLS LIST

The POT Network

  • POT Diigo group
    (see tutorial on how to save bookmarks)
  • POT Facebook group
  • POT Vimeo Channel (workshops)
  • POT YouTube Channel
  • Twittter (please use hashtag #potcomm)

Moodle Help

Moodle is an alternative course management system based on constructivist pedagogy.

Just getting started? Check out this Moodle Tools Guide.

MiraCosta contracts with Moodlerooms, which hosts the installation we use.

Faculty support for Moodle is currently provided by AELearn. Click here to open a support ticket.

For faculty to help each other, join the POT […]

Moodle Tools Guide – great for beginning Moodlers

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Moodle 2.3 tutorials from Mike Bogle

Setting a Blackboard class to point elsewhere

Tips for Moodle 2.3

The Navigation menu

It doesn’t appear on every page, but it has things you need (reports for activity completion and controls for manual grading, expecially). Turn editing onfor the main page first to add the Navigation page where you need it.

I add it to every essay exam page so I can use Manual Grading, […]

 
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