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.

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)

Backing up your whole class

Backing up your classes to your hard drive is important in Moodle, not just to save a copy but also to use Restore to upload the class into another shell

Lisa M Lane

How to point your Bb9 class elsewhere

Escape from Blackboard 9

At many colleges that use Blackboard, every class is given a Bb course. If your course or materials are elsewhere, the presence of a Bb class is just confusing. Here’s how to point your Bb class elsewhere.

Step by step: Open your class in Blackboard. Select Customization. – Check Style […]

Moodle: Firefox and draft essays

Tutorial for students on how and why to use Firefox create essays outside Moodle for insertion into a forum or quiz.

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by Lisa M Lane

Lisa’s Introduction to Moodle

Screencast for students on why Moodle is being used for a class.

by Lisa M Lane

How to embed a YouTube video in a Moodle forum

by Lisa M Lane