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This chapter contains a prompt samples to be used in conjunction with a chatbot utility of your choosing. These prompts guide the bot in generating responses or outputs relevant to your chosen task or project. Prompts should be clear, concise, and context-...
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VPN
The VPN provides a secure, encrypted connection between your off-campus computer or mobile device and the Clarkson campus network. This is necessary to access some campus resources including parts of PeopleSoft, Shared Network Drives (U, S and P for example),...
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Chapter 1: What is Teaching & Learning
At Clarkson, teaching & learning takes place in Moodle, our learning management system. Whether you are teaching online, in person on campus, asynchronously, or something in between, you will use Moodle to provide students with information about your course.
Chapter 2: Preparing Your Course for Students
Whether you are using Moodle to support your in-person class, a completely online course or a synchronous course, your course in Moodle is a professional representation of you, your school, program and our institution. This guidebook supports the work you do ...
Chapter 4: Effective Online Teaching Practices
Use this list of effective practices for online teaching and learning, to improve your course. The list is especially geared toward asynchronous or blended higher education environments, but many apply across all modes.
Chapter 3: Communication and Student Engagement
Communicating with your students is important in any learning mode but consistent communication is extremely important in an online learning environment. For some students, communication with their instructor is their only connection with the institution and w...
Chapter 6: Assessment and Grading
Assessment is more than just assigning grades — it’s how we check for understanding, give students opportunities to demonstrate their learning, and gather feedback to improve our own teaching. In higher education, good assessment balances fairness, clarity, an...
Chapter 5: Technology Tools and Support
Clarkson University provides minimum recommendations for distance and online learning. Minimum Technology Recommendations for Distance and Online Learning (Students & Instructors) Course instructors may require additional technology resources to complete the ...
Chapter 7: Policies and Procedures
Chapter 8: Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to your most commonly asked questions about Moodle, Echo360, Zoom, LTI (Publisher content), Groups, Announcements, Grades and more...
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Current Students
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Echo360: View Content in Echo Library
Instructors can view content they have uploaded or recorded in their Echo library. To do so: Log into Echo at go.clarkson.edu/echo Recordings are categorized as Media. Filter or Search for desired recording by Date Created or Name.
Echo360 Universal Capture Desktop: Sharing Recordings
After you create a recording with Echo360 Universal Capture, there options for sharing to students and others: OPTION I: Instructors can publish recordings to a Class in Echo, and it will appear in Moodle through External Tool link. For each recording, lo...
Echo: Teaching Assistants
We've outlined what a TA can and cannot do here: https://admin.echo360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035035452-User-Roles-Capabilities-and-Limitations Copied the relevant section below: Teaching Assistants CANNOT: View or export student analytic data; teaching...
Echo360: Automatic Speech Recognition or ASR
Have you activated automatic transcripts on your Echo recordings yet? Echo will now automatically transcribe the audio in your recordings, but you must act. This is great news for accessibility and universal design reasons. Transcripts are searchable - so stu...
Echo360: Collections
Collections are designed to be collaborative spaces where specific people (members) are brought together to view, post, or otherwise work with the media in the collection. Everyone in Echo360 can create and manage a collection. Members can be added or invite...
Move Videos to Echo360 to Save Moodle Server Space
Summary Course sections in Moodle with videos that have been uploaded directly into the section as opposed to linking out to or embedding from an external source cause the course section to be unusually large which can slow down the Moodle server. OIT recomme...
Adding & Using Mass Actions Block
This guide shows you how to add the Mass Actions block to your course and how to use it. Tool Description: The Mass Actions block allows you to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual ...
Adding a Profile Picture to Moodle Archive
This article will demonstrate how to add an profile image to a User's Moodle profile, for students and instructors. Head to the Moodle Website Log into Moodle At the Moodle welcome page, go to the top right of page and click the down are where your name/i...
Forum Not Visible in Gradebook
Problem If you do not see your discussion forums showing the course gradebook, the settings for the forum are probably set to “none”. Simply edit the settings for the forum(s). Here’s how: Turn editing on in your course. Go to the Forum(s) that is not...
Forum: How to View All Responses by Student
Summary When using the Whole Forum option for grading a discussion, the easiest way to view all of one student's posts for the discussion at once, is the Grade Users button. How to Steps From your course page, click into the forum. Scroll to the bott...
Add Announcements Forum Back After Deletion
The News & Announcements (or Announcements) forum is a special type of forum that can be used by an instructor to email the whole class. In addition to receiving the announcement in an email, the announcements for the semester will also be archived in the foru...
Add a Course Image to your Course for Display on the Dashboard
Courses are often easier to locate on the Dashboard when a course image has been added in the Course Settings. Note the two course images below, which reflects the title of the course? Add a course image: 1. First have your chosen image ready. (Below are t...
Roll Back Internet Explorer 10 or 11 to Internet Explorer 9
Certain applications on campus will require that you use Internet Explorer 9 only. This will especially be the case when you are using Kronos. If you have been upgraded to a newer version during a Windows Update, see the directions below for how to revert to a...
Updating Java
In your web browser go to www.java.com and click on the red button that says 'Free Java Download'. 2. You will need to click on the next red button that says 'Agree and Start Free Download' 3. The download should start in the task bar at the bottom o...
Computer Repair
Clarkson University OIT offers limited computer repair services and on-campus, servicing both in- and out-of-warranty repair for personally owned computing hardware. Professional repair services are provided by on-site Dell-certified technicians: Malware an...
Microsoft Office Not Activated
Connect to the VPN client. Open Forticlient and "Connect to Clarkson VPN" Close all Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Go to the administrative command prompt: Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories. Right click on Command Prompt...
Assessment: The Big Picture
Assessment is an important part of your course. These two videos below will help you to consider that "grades are for the institution and feedback is for the student". Consider the following resources when learning how to set up your gradebook in Moodle: Mood...
Windows 10 Storage Usage
To check Storage Usage in Windows 10 Go to Settings Click System Click Storage Click This PC (C:) This will display your system's Storage Usage
eduroam is WiFi for Clarkson Campus Community
Summary eduroam is faster, safer WiFi for Clarkson Students / Faculty / Staff on the Potsdam and Capital Region campuses. All other campus visitors use ClarksonGuest. Connect to eduroam: Set-up eduroam on your device ANYTIME before or after you arrive on...
Configuring eduroam WiFi Using iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod)
Open Safari (do not use a different browser) and navigate to https://cat.eduroam.org. Note: iOS requires that you use Safari for this process! If you receive any certificate or verification errors, please stop the process and notify the IT HelpDesk. ...