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Moodle 4.4 Improvements
Refined Look Activities and sections clearly defined. File MIME type icons updated. Single Section Page Focus on one section only in its own page. Bulk Actions Bulk delete, move, duplicate and set availability Adding Activities and Resources Insert activities and resources anyway in your outline Activity Icons Updated activity icons use an accessible color palette.…
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Foreign Language Chatbot
Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. Students can simulate a conversation in their target language with ChatGPT playing the role of a native speaker. In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for…
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Prompt Engineering and Basics of AI
Prompt Engineering “Prompt engineering” may be the most common new term created with the growth of AI. It also suggests more complexity than is involved. However, if like most people, you’re limiting your AI prompts to one or two sentence questions or requests for text, a basic understanding of writing effective prompts can improve your…
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Call for Willoughby 2024 Participants
Apply to participate in Willoughby 2024! The Willoughby Institute is going back to its roots and focusing on the digital humanities. We invite any faculty member who would like to learn more about DH or begin working on a proposed project. Previous Willoughby Fellows are encouraged to participate. The Institute will be held on campus…
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Research process using AI for an undergraduate English student
Background – This demonstration is one simplified theoretical example of how students can use AI to improve their research and also layout the process broadly step by step. As of now, all the tools mentioned below are free to use the way I describe for the general public. Some of these tools are “freemium” models…
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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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Spring 24 Welcome Back!
Greetings and welcome back from Academic Technology! We hope you had a restful break! As we all prepare to return to campus for the spring semester, we wanted to reach out about how Academic Technology can support you and your students. We are your Academic Technology team and are ready to assist you with technology-enhanced assignments…
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Spring 24 Tech Tuesdays!
During the Spring semester, Academic Technology will be hosting Tech Tuesdays. Beginning the 2nd week of the semester, every Tuesday at Noon (excluding faculty meeting days), please come to the computer lab in the Bosler basement to learn about various academic technologies. You can pick and choose which to attend based on your interests. We’ll…
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12/1/23 AI Image of the Week
Bing Image Creator Prompt: Diverse group of undergraduate college students studying in the library. Addition: Please change it so that they’re sitting around a table.
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AI Image of the Week: Happy Thanksgiving!
Created with Firefly. Prompt: a thanksgiving turkey on a platter in the middle of a table but the turkey is alive and staring at you Courtesy of Ryan Burke
Notes from the Bosler basement.
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