E Tools
The E-Learning Center offers various E-learning platforms and tools for teaching and learning purposes. The following page introduces you to the systems offered at our campus. ELC unit coordinators offer ongoing training to faculty and students throughout the academic year to facilitate the use of these tools for designing e-learning content.
Moodle LMS
Interactive WhiteBoard
Camtasia
Turnitin
HotPot
Classroom Response system
Pearson My Lab & Mastering Link
Face-to-Face
Scheduler
McGraw Hill Campus
The E-Learning Center offers various E-learning platforms and tools for teaching and learning purposes. The following page introduces you to the systems offered at our campus. ELC unit coordinators offer ongoing training to faculty and students throughout the academic year to facilitate the use of these tools for designing e-learning content.
Moodle LMS
Moodle is Prince Sultan University’s Learning Management System. It is used for designing course materials, assignments, quizzes, wikis, forums, gradebook, lessons, etc.. and serves for communication with students through ongoing training programs conducted by the LMS Unit trainers. Multimedia elements such as Twitter, YouTube, URL videos recordings can be embedded or linked to the course. Faculty and students are trained on using the system through ongoing training programs conducted by the LMS Unit trainers.
Interactive WhiteBoard
The Hitachi StarBoard is PSU’s Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) system. Faculties are encouraged to engage their students in the lessons more effectively by making use of these system interactive elements. The IWB system helps faculty to design their lectures to be interactive by transforming text lecture into a creative, innovative experience inside the classroom. Moreover, they can record their activities on the Starboard which can then be uploaded into Moodle as a recorded lecture for student revision. The interactive whiteboard supports most multi-media materials, such as images, texts, audio and video documents from various input devices, including desktops, laptops, and USB drives. With this flexibility of the interactive whiteboard, teachers are not restricted to paper documents, cards and chalk in traditional education settings, but can create more interesting teaching materials to suit different needs from the students. One of the main advantages of interactive whiteboards is that all work can be saved and stored with ease as everything is done through a computer.
Camtasia
Camtasia Studio is a screen-recording tool for creating professional quality demonstration videos, instructional videos, and other screen-recording projects. This software is available in all the PCs in lab N201 for both faculty and students to use. The ELC team offer regular training about how to make effective use of Camtasia.
Turnitin
Turnitin is a tool used by PSU faculty to detects instances of plagiarism within submitted assignments. Faculties are encouraged to make use of this tool to promote academic integrity in their courses because it helps them to detect plagiarized papers and view the similarities percentage to outside content in the web or other published resources. Alongside, our Moodle training series, E-Learning coordinators provide training on how to create Moodle Turnitin assignments as well as how to generate similarity reports. While Turnitin can be used as a punitive measure to catch students who are copying the work of others without acknowledgment, it is also valuable as a feedback mechanism to help students learn what constitutes plagiarism and to help them to develop their academic writing skills.
HotPot
The HotPot module allows Instructors to distribute interactive learning materials to their students via Moodle and view reports on the students' responses and results. A single HotPot activity consists of an optional entry page, a single e-learning exercise, and an optional exit page. The e-learning exercise may be a static web page or an interactive web page which offers students text, audio, and visual prompts and records their responses. The e-learning exercise is created on the instructor's computer using authoring software and then uploaded to Moodle.
Classroom Response system
ELC promote the use of classroom response system (CRS), Poll Everywhere, since it enables faculty to interact with students via their smartphones/laptops or tablet devices as clickers during lectures by posing questions to them via a presentation. It allows faculty to transform one-way presentations into a lively conversation with the entire classroom.
Why Should Use CRS In My Classroom?
Collect Formative feedback.
Peer feedback.
Foster Student Engagement.
Assess understanding of concepts.
Initiate discussion amongst the class.
If you would like to receive training on Poll Everywhere, please contact E-Learning@psu.edu.sa
Faculty user guide
Pearson My Lab & Mastering Link
Pearson offers integration between Moodle and its MyLab & Mastering products. This integration provides the ability for the instructor and students to log in to Moodle and click a link from a Moodle course to access their MyLab & Mastering experience.
This integration provides
- Single sign-on (SSO) from the Moodle course into the MyLab & Mastering
course. This standards-based integration uses IMS Learning Tools
Interoperability (LTI), a proven integration protocol.
- Links to Pearson MyLab & Mastering courses ensure the student is presented
with the educational materials they need within the context of the Moodle
course frame.
Face-to-Face
The Face-to-Face activity module enables an Instructor to set up a voluntary booking system for one or many in-person/classroom based sessions. Each session within a Face-to-Face activity can have customized settings around location, venue, start time, finish time, cost, capacity, etc. These can be set to run over multiple days or to allow for unscheduled and waitlisted sessions. An Activity may be set to require manager approval and teachers can configure automated notifications and session reminders for attendees. Students can view and sign-up for sessions with their attendance tracked and recorded within the Grades area.
Scheduler
The scheduler activity helps instructors in scheduling appointments with their students. Instructors specify time slots for meetings, students then choose one of them on Moodle. Instructors, in turn, can record the outcome of the meeting - and optionally a grade - within the scheduler. Group scheduling is supported; that is, each time slot can accommodate several students, and optionally it is possible to schedule appointments for entire groups at the same time.
McGraw Hill Campus
McGraw Hill Campus is integrated with Moodle. This integration provides the ability to create a seamless, easy-to-use course that brings world class content and resources into a rich learning environment. Providing the instructor with the resources to create a deeply integrated, engaging courses that allow students to be fully immersed in the content and empowered to succeed.