Category: Quick Tips
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Instructions for Language Professors to Make Your Own Chatbots
Getting Started – Your First Prompt 1. First, go to https://chatbot.dickinson.edu/profprompt. 2. Enter the password, then click submit. If you don’t know the password, contact Todd at bryantt@dickinson.edu. 3. Select the language that you want the chatbot to be in with the language dropdown near the top of the page. 4. A dropdown for selecting…
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Instructions for Language Professors to View Students and Navigate the Website
Navigating the Website 1. Navigate to https://chatbot.dickinson.edu/?prof=true. 2. Click on the hamburger icon on the top right corner. To edit or create new chatbots, click on Prompt, or go to https://chatbot.dickinson.edu/profprompt. To view students, click on View Students, or go to https://chatbot.dickinson.edu/profview. To return to the Voice Chatbot conversation page, click on Professor Dashboard on…
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Instructions for Students to Use Language Chatbots
Getting Started 1. First, go to https://chatbot.dickinson.edu. 2. Select the language that you are learning, and pick the chatbot that your professor assigned. 3. Either type a message or speak to the chatbot verbally to communicate with the chatbot. 4. In order to listen to a message from the chatbot, click the speaker icon on…
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Extra Credit
We often get asked how to create extra credit opportunities with the Moodle Gradebook. Ryan was kind enough to put together this set of instructions. Let’s use the following grading structure as an example and assume you would like to add a Grade Item as extra credit for the course. Research Paper 15% Quizzes …
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Generative AI Tips
A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Connell and I delivered a training session for faculty to learn more about generative AI (ChatGPT, etc.) and how you can use it to save time with your administrative functions and in your planning for teaching. Since this is the academic technology blog I’m going to focus on the…
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Giving Feedback Directly in Word
Ryan Burke, our Web Development Specialist, was working with a faculty member yesterday on a Moodle feature we didn’t know existed until now. Apparently when students submit Word files to an assignment, there’s a way to download the files, put your feedback right on the Word document, and then upload them to Moodle. The new…