{"id":8092,"date":"2018-10-04T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2018-10-04T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:16:13","slug":"new-year-new-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/new-year-new-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"New year, new Moodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bailey Thompson | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the first week of classes under their belts, many students have likely have noticed that Moodle, the website where they access their classes online, has profited from a substantial update. Although many things remain unchanged, there are a number of differences that are useful to note.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think the most obvious thing for students to see will be the dashboard. So, when you are logging into Moodle right now, instead of seeing the old categories, you are seeing the time of when things are due and then the course tab,\u201d said Academic Technologist Weiwei Zhang, who heads Moodle Support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the newest version of Moodle, students are able to see their current classes by default, but they will also be able to see past and future classes beginning in winter term. Additionally, the files for any classes predating Fall 2018 will now be kept in an archived version of the site, which is accessible via a link on the right-hand column of the update.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe reason for this archive site is really not to make people\u2019s lives more difficult. It\u2019s because we self-host Moodle, and every two years the database is about to get full. We wanted to make sure Moodle doesn\u2019t crash on anyone and the speed is still good, so our University Computing Services came up with a solution,\u201d Zhang commented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though it is challenging for Moodle Support to explain everything about the new update in advance, Zhang emphasized that students are welcome to reach out if they have any questions with the technical aspects of Moodle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are building our website, so eventually we will have more tutorials for students,\u201d Zhang shared. \u201cWe have great (graduate assistants), so they help answer a lot of emails&#8230;if students have any questions they can just call.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The phone number for Moodle Support is 503-838-9300 and the email address is moodle@wou.edu. Students can also make appointments to meet with Moodle Support in ITC 204 if they have any further questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howlnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bailey Thompson | News Editor With the first week of classes under their belts, many students have likely have noticed that Moodle, the website where they access their classes online, has profited from a substantial update. Although many things remain unchanged, there are a number of differences that are useful to note. \u201cI think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}