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)

Adding a forum in Moodle 1.9

Creating a Forum in Moodle 1.9 from Program for Online Teaching on Vimeo.

Embedding YouTube video in Moodle

MiraCosta’s Moodle 1.9 has a filter enabled (and Moodle 2 had it already) that allows you to use the URL of a YouTube video to embed it by linking. See this tutorial:

It used to be that we could use the Old Embed Code and toggle html for this, but the old code was eliminated […]

Moodle: a brief introduction on changing student permissions for a forum

A brief introduction on how to change student permissions for any particular forum so they can do things like rate posts, erase posts, etc.

Moodle: a brief introduction to types of forums

A brief introduction to the four types of forums in Moodle.

Moodle: using it as just a discussion board

For more on forums in Moodle, see also:

Moodle: A brief introduction to types of forums

Moodle: a brief introduction on changing student permissions for a forum

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