Faculty workshop January 2025

Comments on and suggestions for the Monday morning offices information sharing presentations

  • Provide a handout so that faculty and refer to the important information during advising.
  • None. All presenters did their work wel

List two things you liked most about the Monday and Tuesday sessions

  • I appreciated the fact that we were informed of what is expected of us before we resume classes. I am also so thrilled that I and the others had the opportunity to get assistance from Fiji. A great thank you to Administration Office!
  • Moodle and Financial Aid
  • Not too long and responsive to questions. 
  • Moodle training and Financial aid presentation 
  • Presentation from Moodle was well clear and makes me understand.
  • one on one moodle training
  • We are able to work together
  • We are able to learn from our neighbor states.
  • More participated, and somewhat clear


List two recommendations for improvement of the Monday and Tuesday sessions

  • Attendance and Punctuality as well as mutual understanding in terms of communication. ( A tiny bit of misunderstanding about the Moodle sign up for one-on one training).
  • Need a professor to assist in Moodle because they are more familiar with LMS and have past experiences.
  • The smartboard screen is hard to see from the back of the room. 
  • Have he people who make the Moodle transition on site 
  • Someone to really pay attention to off-island faculty to address right away. Have a designated person to handle other state campus questionnaire 
  • Not what most of the instructors needed. Especially for those who had already completed their migration before the holidays. 
  • More trainers to assist faculty in need about moodle.
  • I would recommend a face to face workshop
  • A list of agenda should be send to all.

From what you know of Moodle at present, what areas should future Moodle training focus upon?

  • I am grateful that  Fiji was able to help and I hope I could be on my own after I grasp how to do all the steps. Now I need to put my questions in the question bank for quizzes and tests, very convenient. 
  • Weighting grades, creating quizzes with different formats.
  • How to correct students work as uploaded files within Moodle, rather than download the file and make corrections to it.
  • We have to try it out with the students first to see what works and what doesn't. 
  • Setting up assignment need to be more specific 
  • sharing link on moodle and videos
  • How to set up gradebook.
  • Setting up a quiz and grading system

What area(s), if any, would you have wanted coverage of and which were not covered in the workshop?

  • I think everything was covered, if there are two Fijis it would be perfect, however Sean was helping us too.
  • quizzes on Moodle.
  • Using Moodle as a gradebook with face-to-face sections. 
  • I need more training on how to send email from Moodle like the one on Canvas 

Any other comments on the faculty workshop?

  • None for now.I went to my office on Tuesday, so I cannot rate the workshops on that day. 
  • Please do a survey on what we actually need for the workshop - especially the moodle part as most contents are too basic, and overlapping with the early December Zoom trainings. 
  • To have IC work together along with DAP to send out Agenda 2 to 3 days before. To have all state campus join system workshop and later they can have their own workshop.
  • Training on moodle need to be face to face training 


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