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Today's Events
Gradescope is available within Moodle, allowing faculty to streamline grading and provide consistent feedback. Explore at your own pace with step-by-step resources designed to help you make the most of its features.For new users, explore the resources available at: Get started with GradescopeYou can also explore their instructor resources for creating and grading different types of assignments.

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New to Moodle or need a refresher? This workshop introduces you to Colgate's learning management system, focusing on how Moodle can enhance teaching and learning. We'll cover basic functionalities to help you set up your courses, plus explore key features for creating, collecting, and assessing assignments and forums. This will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

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“Colgate Domains” provides faculty and students with a space on the web and access to digital tools for creating web content. Colgate Domains supports teaching and learning by enabling faculty and students make connections to other sources and media on the web, publish their work publicly, or create a forward-facing web presence for themselves or their project(s). This workshop will feature an overview of the principles of connected learning and demonstrate some uses of websites and tools found on Domains for teaching and learning. Ideas and recommendations for activity and assignment design for websites created in Colgate Domains will also be shared to inform potential collaborative course projects in Colgate Domains. This session will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

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Ready to enhance your Moodle courses with powerful external tools? This workshop introduces tools such as Gradescope and Hypothesis, demonstrating how these third-party integrations can offer advanced options for assignments, grading, and sharing resources within your Moodle environment. This will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

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Explore Moodle 4.5's new features to simplify course management and improve learning. This workshop covers course subsections, enhanced assignments (with automatic additional attempts) and improved notifications. We'll also look at new quiz options like reopening attempts and regrading, plus updates to bulk editing capabilities. This workshop is geared toward those who have used Moodle previously. If you are brand new to Moodle or would like a deeper dive, we recommend taking the 'Getting Started with Moodle' workshop. This will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

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Living Writers returns in 2025 with a lineup of nine events and 11 visiting writers. We are so lucky to welcome these folks to our village and campus, as well as to our online community where so many of y’all gather and keep Colgate’s reading culture going strong.We hope you’ll join us for Living Writers 2025 and take the chance to reconnect with the liberal arts spirit of reading, deep thinking, sustained attention, and conversation around shared texts. Expand your reading habits and join this community of readers looking to connect through books!Sign Up for the Aug. 25 Zoom KickoffKnow of someone else who might be interested? Feel free to share our email livingwriters@colgate.edu and sign-up link with them.Tom Standage is deputy