UMass Instructional Platform Listening Tour 2 by https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2 en-us 2022-04-04 18:01:10 UTC 2022-04-13 19:47:20 UTC hello@padlet.com All courses that I teach are now posted into the LMS Moodle. I have included PACKback on one occasion now - this was challenging for the students because of how it was set up. Since the heavier use of digital environments because of COVID I have noticed that there is a BIPHASIC curve in most of my classes now. So some students are really struggling with finding all of the materials even when I go over the setup in class, and overall I feel that the students are engaging less well. This seems counter intuitive - perhaps there is just SO MUCH digital engagement that students are numb to it all? https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107306 2022-04-07 18:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107306 Course Hub https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107320 email lists
grades
links to assignments
links for all the resources
repository for course materials]]> 2022-04-07 18:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107320 location to organize, publish and deliver content. More and more it is becoming the main location for all things related to the course especially as better resources are made available within the digital space. https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107369 2022-04-07 18:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107369 I use moodle in my regular semester classes extensively. In the summer even more extensively as the class is fully asynchronous. I post quizzes, my echo360 videos, readings, lists of what needs to be done each week, supplemental videos. I keep track of grades, though that can be burdensome. I also use clicker cloud which works great in rooms with good wifi. It does not integrate well with moodle sad for me. I use discord to do out of class discussions with students. It's fantastic. In the summer it's a major driver of student/teacher interactions. I use zoom for office hours -- though in the regular semester I've stopped as students don't attend. https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107402 2022-04-07 18:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135107402 Digital teaching & learning https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135109292 Moodle - to post lecture notes, grades, send announcements, quizzes, assignment submissions. I link to Echo360 and iClicker through Moodle. I frequently use screencastomatic to create videos (then posted in youtube with links posted on Moodle). Googledocs / slides / sheets. For the past year I've used SLACK to try and generate in-class Q&A, but it hasn't been that great. Zoom for office hours and meetings.]]> 2022-04-07 18:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135109292 I am a lecturer in Chemistry and I joined UMASS in FA20. I taught Chem labs so I only used Moodle before. Moodle can help to publish lab protocols, practising problems and other related documents. I am trying to learn other applications of Moodle and try to study how to use Blackboard. haozehe https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135109560 2022-04-07 18:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135109560 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135112266 I use Moodle for ALL material on the class. One class is organized week by week, the other one is by topic. Questionnaires, quizzes, attendance, link to zoom recordings when necessary, grades, assignments, turnitin. Reference material and extra videos. Quick mail, announcements as well
For student work we might use jam board, google sheets and docs, slides]]> 2022-04-07 18:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135112266 I'm going to assume you are asking about the components currently in place: crounds1 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135119939 1 quizzing - this could work better
2 posting videos and other files
3 sections (by time or topic)
4 ability to edit the look of the page (text size, color etc).
5 grade book -- and boy this could use some improvement
6 link to echo 360 or something even more flexible
7 turnitin access
8 ability to email whole roster
9 ability to give others access to different levels of LMS (e.g. grading)
10. integration of clicker cloud (actually missing)


]]> 2022-04-07 18:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135119939 Needs/requirements https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120068 LMS: Password protected for grades. Needs to integrate with echo360 without me having to do anything. Be able to post documents and links. Quizzing ability (with the ability to randomize questions).
Classroom: iclickers]]> 2022-04-07 18:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120068 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120168 Easy communications with students
Repository for resources
Connections to productivity resources  
Be best if had a good communiciation platform (similar to slack/discord)
Flexible and student focused

]]> 2022-04-07 18:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120168 Must transfer grades correctly to SPIRE for large enrollment courses. track individual student activity. flexibility in organizing content and materials. control of delivery time of content and materials. https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120970 2022-04-07 18:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135120970 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135122040 What it has now is the starting point of what I need. A location where to deliver content, receive assignments and transmit information back and forth with students. 
Quizzes, questionnaires, integrated grading and plagiarism check. Posting videos, documents. Emailing, group creation. A warning if students are falling behind without having to scan all students (link to navigate to report students performance)

]]> 2022-04-07 18:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135122040 intuitive design (drag & drop, fast learning curve, etc.), easy to integrate with other resources (SPIRE, Echo360, chat, etc., but non-UMass hosted services as well to some extent), flexibility for different use cases than reusable course instances https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135124731 2022-04-07 18:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135124731 Must haves: https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135130419 Centralized grades
emails lists
Quizzing and grading could be easier - this is a huge time investment to set up 
more editing ability for items added into moodle 
Do not have to constantly reinvent the wheel to make things work
Decrease the number of mouse clicks to achieve an outcome - especially for grading items
AUTOMATIC Internal way to prompt students close to a due date or exam date


]]> 2022-04-07 18:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135130419 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135130658 easier set-up of access restrictions if students belong to different sections/ groups.
Grading of assignments that can be marked on the spot (pdf) and it shared with multiple students (used to exist and was dropped some years back). Integration with echo360 and live broadcasting. 


]]> 2022-04-07 18:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135130658 any tool used should only take at most 2 clicks with the mouse to accomplish. Grading now takes multiple clicks which is very time consuming for a course of any enrollment. Way to many mouse clicks to do anything. Memory of your favorite tools at the top instead of having to hunt for things. The system should be able to remember what I like https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135134423 2022-04-07 18:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135134423 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135134547 Easy asynchronous communication to enhance engagement and informal integration
integration with productivity/creativity tools 
flexibility to have a central platform that can be easily modularized to accommodate different needs depending on the course
UI that is intuitive
Easily assign roles

]]> 2022-04-07 18:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135134547 Wishes https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135135232 That extra time on quizzes could be built in once and then its set for the rest of the semester (and please let me know if this is a feature that I'm unaware of). Easily building clicker-like questions into videos (doing it via echo360 was too much of a learning curve for me). Better mobile access for students. Fewer steps for grading student work.]]> 2022-04-07 18:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135135232 wishful thinking crounds1 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135135592 1. quiz/assignments that have late penalties so that I'm not having to give constant extensions
2. globally assigned student accomodations (2 days extra for this student on all assignments).
3. Actual integration with clicker cloud
4. Grade book that more easily could handle missed assignments and assignments not graded yet (so if I've put in all 10 quizzes and we're half way thought the semester, the students should've done 5 quizzes but has only done three --they should have zeros on two but not be penalized for the others).
5. Lecture recordings integrated into the LMS rather than another platform.
6. Much more control over text/color/size and arrangement.
7. Grade book that emails students when they're about to miss an assignment.
8. Easier control for giving others roles.]]> 2022-04-07 18:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135135592 Wanted features: https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135136256 Easier grading features - TOO MANY CLICKS especially with a class size great than 50. If it takes 3-4 click to grade 1 questions this is an enourmous misuse of time.]]> 2022-04-07 18:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135136256 grading can be integrated into Moodle. Like the Gradescope, it would be better if students can submit their assignments in PDF and TA can grade them and give the feedback. Moreover, the discussion and interaction system can be updated. The current Group Forum is not friendly for people to discuss. It's better to discuss in time but not wait 30 mins. haozehe https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135136703 2022-04-07 18:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135136703 ability to make sections/topics/content truly invisible to the students. It is not always invisible to students. https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135145970 2022-04-07 18:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135145970 Pain Points https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146136 supporting more than one LMS (Moodle/Blackboard)
limited well thought out informal communication options (discussion boards don't really work)
Good mobile options ]]> 2022-04-07 18:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146136 key pain points crounds1 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146432 1. Students aren't digital natives. I don't care what I keep getting told. Knowing how to use take-took doesn't make you a digital native, maybe a digital zombie. This is to say, that fewer platforms is probably better despite the fact that I like lots of different softwares. I'm a digital immigrant, but I love my new country.
2. quiz inflexibility (late fine), gradebook difficulty and clicker cloud integration are my pain points.
3. More flexibiliy with colors/folders/fonts etc.
4. Somebody else said it so I want to jump on -- quiz creation is terribly cumbersome and several of the question types barely work (mostly the drag and drop versions). i use almost all the types, but the drag and drop marker one is just terrible. ]]> 2022-04-07 18:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146432 Key pain points https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146941 Building exams in Moodle is super-time consuming especially since we can only upload Aiken format MC.
Correctly calculating final grades in Moodle (via the Moodle gradebook). I've given up and just download to EXCEL, re-upload the final to Moodle, set that as the final grade calculation and then import that into SPIRE.]]> 2022-04-07 18:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135146941 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135147405 Would be nice to have features such as jam board in Moodle, not having to send students to another platform to collaborate.
The wiki in Moodle is very cumbersome.
Grading multiple clicks
The drag of items in Moodle is cumbersome.
The grade book can be sometimes confusion on how to set-up not the basic grading and points.
Setting up restrictions for different groups, that cannot be saved as a group, so for each assignment needs to be repeated


]]> 2022-04-07 18:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135147405 Pain Points https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135148637 I think the digital environment really allows some students to hide now - they think that just view slides and a video will be a substitute for attending a class. This is sad and is not serving some of our students well, and these are the ones that might needs our facilitation more than others.
I DO NOT HAVE A SOLUTION.
When minor changes are made to Moodle (as what happened in the Fall) - it took students more than a week to adapt - that small carrot option did them in right away!


]]> 2022-04-07 18:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135148637 Concrete Evidence: https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159157
That I am spending LESS time on teaching instead of the 2-4X  greater amount of time for even simple tasks like a quiz/exam, posting items etc. I believe Exams in Moodle are also problematic for students.
The biphasic grade distribution reverts back to more bell shaped distribution.]]> 2022-04-07 18:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159157 concrete evidence crounds1 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159161 1. Fewer emails asking for quiz extensions.
2. Fewer emails asking what their grade is.
3. Fewer emails asking why they're not getting credit for coming to class (clicker cloud essentially).

]]> 2022-04-07 18:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159161 Evidence https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159820 More students are meeting my course learning outcomes and they are happier/more engaged in class. I spend more time interacting with students and less time clicking around on Moodle.]]> 2022-04-07 18:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135159820 Concrete Evidence https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135160204 Fewer emails related to very basic class items.
Focus on content more!]]> 2022-04-07 18:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135160204 https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135160477 Less asking for extensions
More compliance with due dates

]]> 2022-04-07 18:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2135160477 opportunities for support staff to be added for students who have a Classroom Access Assistant, ASL interpreter or captioner. Such materials can be crucial to the preparation of the staff member and hence the student's services. annmarieduchon https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2142921361 2022-04-13 19:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2142921361 Remote exam options that can be arranged for students who need remote proctoring. annmarieduchon https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2142922051 2022-04-13 19:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/instruct1/listening2/wish/2142922051