Use Moodle for Core Activities

Moodle is recommended as the main hub for your course. Moodle can house your course documents, readings and presentation files. It can also be used to facilitate communication with all the students enrolled in your course as well as provide a record of all your communication. The following resources will walk you through the process of creating a Moodle space for your class using WolfWare, posting to the announcements forum and uploading a resource such as a PowerPoint file.

• Handouts
  • Quick Start Guide to Setting Up Moodle (2 pages)
  • Setting up Moodle (9 pages)
• DELTA LearnTech YouTube Videos
  • Setting up Moodle
  • Full Playlist: Teaching with Moodle at NC State (4 videos)
  • Full Playlist: Quizzing in Moodle (6 videos)
• DELTA Knowledge Base: Articles on Moodle 

Use Zoom for Online Class Meetings

Zoom is our web conferencing tool and enables you to have real-time interactions with your students. Zoom can be used to hold office hours and deliver course lectures, and meetings are easy to record. The following resources will walk you through the process of creating a Zoom meeting, sharing that link with students as well as how to facilitate a meeting and deliver a lecture.

• Handouts
  • Quick Start Guide to Using Zoom (1 page)
  • Scheduling and Hosting Meetings with Zoom (5 pages)
• DELTA LearnTech YouTube Videos
  • Download and Update the Zoom Client
  • Schedule Meetings with Zoom
  • Hosting a Meeting in Zoom
  • Full Playlist: Teaching with Zoom (9 videos)
• DELTA Knowledge Base:  Articles on Zoom

Advice for Teaching Online

• Consult the guide on How to Be a Better Online Teacher in the special collection, “Moving Online Now: How to Keep Teaching during Coronavirus,” published by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• See suggestions from NC State instructors in the DELTA News article, “Tips from Faculty for Quickly Preparing to Teach Online.”
• Other helpful articles:
  • “DELTA Faculty Fellow Finds Success in Online Instruction“
  • “Important Considerations for Teaching Online When That Wasn’t Your Original Plan”