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Moodle has a feature that allows instructors to control whether students receive reminders about various events in a course. The Reminders link in the Administration block allows customization for a course and course events. Steps to Customize Reminders for a...

Research on using AI in the classroom is in it's infancy but academics on ramping up their efforts in a variety of categories. Articles not yet peer reviewed by a Journal AI Tutoring Outperforms Active LearningAI tutors outperform human instructors, doublin...

Clarkson University suggests instructors provide a paragraph outlining the specific guidelines for student use of AI in the course syllabus.* Follow the link below to view a crowd-sourced list of policies from various institutions. According to the webpage: "...

Summary This article explains how to save documents as PDF files using commonly used software listed below so that if students are asked to submit assignments, even handwritten assignments, as PDF files, provide these instructions to help them to submit a r...

Particularly during remote teaching and learning, it is common for faculty and students to share a scanned version of a document or assignment for which they have a hard copy (e.g. notes, equations, handwritten work, etc.). Office Lens offers a secure way to s...

If your professor tells you your Assignment PDF file submission is not readable for grading in Moodle, don't panic! You just need to change the Print -Scale settings to Fit to Printable area. From the Moodle Grader perspective, your professor is seeing someth...

As of 2025, the Cisco AnyConnect VPN is no longer supported. Please refer to the following you wish to remove the old VPN from your system: Uninstall or remove apps and programs in Windows Uninstall apps on your Mac If you require further assistan...

Extra Credit in Moodle Gradebook can be tricky. Consider just adding a point or two to the final grade average as this is the easiest method for some aggregation methods. If that doesn't interest you, try following the steps General InformationIf you would lik...

Choosing an option for online video/audio collaboration/presentation will depend upon your goals. Schedule a consultation with the Teaching and Learning Corner (TLC) team for help in devising a customized plan for using alternate tools that support your instru...

The World Wide Web is an amazing place, full of tons of learning opportunities. Education has changed greatly since its introduction and we encourage you to take advantage of the resources and media out there. Library The Clarkson University Library is a...

Polaris is a publicly available shell server hosted by OIT's Network Services. Polaris accounts are not generated automatically, and must be requested either by a professor for their class, or by an individual with a reasonable need to access the service. Pola...

Once you have accessed Polaris through SSH, you will be in a Linux Bash shell. This will not be a comprehensive guide, but instead will give a general overview of our most frequently asked questions. Linux File Permissions A good overview of Linux file permiss...

Both lin-web.clarkson.edu and people.clarkson.edu have their files hosted from Polaris. Editing the sites on Polaris is similar to Webspace. Lin-Web and People (shortened to just lin-web in this document) files all come from the same directory structure as Web...

Overview The Workshop Activity provides a robust tool for setting up peer reviewing for assessment of assignments submitted to the workshop. Moodle Workshop has four phases, Set up, Submission, Assessment, and Evaluation. Each phase is explained below, howeve...

Summary Courses can be meta linked into a mother course and divided into Groups in many ways. For example, a lecture course may have many sections  or a course may have many lab sections that occur at different times. Often the course may provide students wit...

Overview Find below the steps for Instructors and Instructional Designers to create a Zoom Meeting Room and then set up the link for recordings to post to the Echo360 Recordings link inside the Moodle course. This is a work around to using the Zoom Plug In.  ...