(Time to Read: 5 mins.)In August of 2024, members of CTLR were invited to test new VR training systems beng developed by VCC’s Culinary Arts program. The team I’m in, CTLR, is a small department, serving all schools…
(Time to Read: 4 mins.)For a couple of years, eLSupport has had a backburner project going to experiment with ways to connect VCC’s Moodle learning management system with our Microsoft Teams environment. Advantages of using Teams with Moodle…
(Time to Read: 4 mins.)Modern complex platforms are usually made up of components — parts that perform specific tasks and communicate with other parts using common protocols. Moodle is an example of a complex, open platform, made up…
(Time to Read: 2 mins.)Over the past three years we (VCC) have seen a steady reduction in the total number of ticket requests submitted to our eLearning Support helpdesk* by faculty. At the same time, we have seen…
(Time to Read: 5 mins.)Even with my cynic’s hat firmly affixed, I haven’t been able to avoid using GenAI to enhance content for online courses. Here are examples where I’ve used AI to generate or enhance content for elearning projects at VCC.
(Time to Read: 2 mins.)In my ongoing efforts to extract meaning from our Kaltura data, I looked into the relationship between video length and the number of times a video has been viewed. What I expected to see…
(Time to Read: 3 mins.)Moodle course shell creation and enrolment are the most critical and commonly-needed tasks for online learning at Vancouver Community College. At VCC, we use the term shell to refer to the web site container…