In 2017 UCL Education Committee approved a policy that according to which lecture materials are to be made available to students 48 hours in advance. You can read read background to the decision and a more detailed rationale on the UCL Teaching and Learning Portal.
As well as benefiting students whose first language is not English, this measure helps to fulfill fulfil our responsibilities for the 2010 Equalities Act. We need to ask ourselves:
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You can drag and drop files from your computer's file management program into Moodle's upload field, which should save you some clicks.
See the miniguide on uploading files.
To upload multiple files
You can either drag and drop multiple files into the upload field, or you can zip (compress and bundle) the files into a single file which you can upload to Moodle and unzip there.
See the miniguide on uploading files.
Link to material which is hosted elsewhere
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To invite questions on your materials
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The Achilles heel of flipping is ensuring that students do the advance work - otherwise, the in-person session fails. One approach is to let students know that you will be using Moodle Reports to check access to the materials, and monitoring this as attendance. Another is to require students to ask questions about the materials (either through HotQuestion or through Lecturecast ALP) and monitoring monitor that as attendance.
The materials made available in advance could include, say, a 15-minute video presentation made on Lecturecast Personal Capture, along with materials, and instructions about asking questions.
Lecturecast ALP lets you make slides available independently of recordings
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- hide and unhide slides you need to wait to reveal, without needing to make separate uploads.
- use its inbuilt interactivity to get early feedback in the form of notes, questions and flags.
- include questions (short answer, multichoicemulti-choice, ranking or click-on-image) to be used in advance, during the session, or afterwards.
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It is easy to rename any Moodle resource
You needn't go into Edit Settings to rename. Instead, Turn editing Use the toggle switch to turn 'Edit mode' on and click the edit (pen) icon next to the resource title which is the 'Edit Title' option. Type your amendments, then press the Return key to Enter when finished and your new title will automatically save.
To swap files quickly
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Your questions or suggestions
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