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Badges for Completion

Badges for Completion

Required materials All Dearborn staff members are required to complete a variety of training. Currently there are three courses that need to be completed: Response to Bullying Behavior, OCR, and Bloodborne Pathogens. We have made this training available via on-line...

Blended Learning Course

RESA is offering one last opportunity for educators to be involved in developing Blended Learning Skills. The course is free (unless you want SCECH's- which is $10). The course starts 1/12/2015 with a mandatory face-to-face session on 1/28/15 (after school). The...

BLUME – Blended Learning Using Moodle Expertly

Do you want your students to bloom? Join us for BLUME (Blended Learning Using Moodle Expertly). This will be a Blended Learning opportunity the helps teachers learn how to use iLearn. SCECH's are available. BLUME Schedule Day 1: 04/12/2014 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm...

New iLearn Feature – Badges

New iLearn Feature – Badges

Who doesn't like getting a sticker or stamp of approval?  Now you can award students digital "Badges" in iLearn.  This new feature is great at motivating students as they appear in their profile and can be seen by others. Teacher Robert Harrison at Edsel Ford High...

Moodle Quick Grade Performance Issue

We just updated iLearn to Moodle 2.6.1 last week and some teachers were complaining about slow load times when trying to use Quickgrading when looking at Assignments.  The issue stems from the way Moodle wants to build the table with all the student data. It is a bug...

iLearn Update Complete

We have completed an update of iLearn. This was an extensive update. However, it is now complete. Here are some of the features that the update brings: Improved grading features Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within...

Digital Book Reviews – Using Moodle (iLearn)

Digital Book Reviews – Using Moodle (iLearn)

Have you ever wanted to do a school-wide or classroom book review?  Moodle is a powerful tool that allows a teacher to do many types of projects with students.  A good example of how you can use Moodle for a project is doing Book Reviews.  With Moodle you can have a...

iLearn Update

This has truly been a busy, busy summer for us. Not only have we instituted the Gmail transition, updated iBlog, updated the HelpDesk system, but we have also updated iLearn. This update will include a new "look and feel" along with some additional functionality and...

Use of Maraha

The Technology Department has been hard at work providing Blended Learning opportunities for teachers and students. One of the powerful tools that we have is Mahara. In order to help teachers, tutorials have been created to assist in the use of Mahara. Please see...