Announcements
Moodle Training
As you know, this Spring the FirstClass course icons were fazed out and moved to Moodle. During the month of April we will be offering Advanced Moodle Training on “How to Create Quizzes”, “How to Use Grading”, “Wikis, Blogs & Rss Feeds”, and “How to Backup, Import & Export Classes”. If you are located at the Florida Campus or if you are a remote faculty member you can join the Advanced Moodle Training remotely via the web. As long as you have a high-speed internet connection from home and a phone, you can participate. The training will last about 1 1/2 hrs. These sessions will be "hands on" with web remote control. Please sign up for one of the following sessions by contacting the Faculty Information Commons.
ADVANCED MOODLE TRAINING TIMES
JUNE *Wednesday, June 4th 9:30am-11am, Migrating Online Courses
*Wednesday, June 4th 1:00pm–3:00pm, Online Grading
*Friday, June 6th 9:30am–noon, Online Quizzes
*Friday, June 6th 1:00pm–3:00pm, Advanced Online Classroom Features
Please contact the Faculty Info Commons to reserve a spot if you wish to attend a training session. If you are teaching during the Summer or Fall 2008 and have not been trained on the Virtual Campus interface then please contact the Faculty Information Commons as soon as possible. As always, the Faculty Info Commons is here to help you. You can e-mail us with any questions faculty_info_commons@asburyseminary.edu or call 859-858-2330 or visit our web site at http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/ .
Tutorials: We also have Virtual Campus tutorials available at http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/fic/exl-support
RESERVE REQUESTS
It is time to request your Reserve material for the Summer 2008 semester. Please fill out the copyright request form located at http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/fic/forms. Any requests made after Monday, April 14, 2008, cannot be guaranteed before the start date of class. This due date will give us enough time to seek copyright permissions if necessary, process your request and place the material on physical reserve or electronic reserve (e-reserve) within a week prior to the semester. Reserve material requested after this date will not have a guarantee of placement before the beginning of class.
EXL MEDIA REQUESTS
It is that time again. We need you to fill out the request form for the ExL Media that you would like sent to your Summer 2008 students. You can access this form (ExL Media Request Form) via our web site at http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/fic/forms. This request form is due by Monday, April 14, 2008. Media requested after this date cannot be guaranteed before the start date of class.
PRODUCTION REQUESTS
If the media that you desire to use has not yet been created, please contact the Faculty Information Commons immediately by filling out a Faculty Media Production Form available via our web site at http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/fic/forms. We need to process your request as soon as possible in order to get the media to your students in time for the beginning of class. No guarantees can be made on production requests for NEW media needed for Summer of 2008 classes, if submitted after Monday, April 14th, 2008.
SUMMER 2008 SYLLABI
As we continue the transition to all classes using Moodle, the terminology in syllabi needs to be updated to reflect the move from FirstClass. Yes, it is different, and to ease potential stress for you, the Faculty Info Commons invites you to submit your syllabi to us to be Moodlized, or, if you wish to update your syllabus yourself, we are available to review the changes you make. Simply email your syllabus to faculty_info_commons@asburyseminary.edu and we will do what is required. If you would like to make changes yourself, download the Online Section Descriptions and Communications Guidelines, which describe the various sections to Moodle - you can copy and paste the text into your syllabus. Remember that there is also required copyright and contact information you can copy and paste into your syllabus, with more information for ExL courses, here: http://www.asburyseminary.edu/faculty/fic/required-syllabus-info Please submit your syllabus to the FIC before Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in order to give us time to review or Moodlize your syllabus. After your syllabus is completed please save it as an .rtf file from Microsoft Word and upload it within Firstclass to Faculty News>Faculty Info>Course Syllabi and then the appropriate semester or if you are ajunct faculty upload it to A-Team>A-Team Info>Class Syllabi .