Merging the EMS Calendar With Your Google Calendar

Google Docs Email Collaborators

You have probably attached a Google Doc to a Gmail message via the weird little "Drive" icon button at the bottom left of the email interface:

Did you know you can also easily email any or all of the people who have access to a Google Doc, from within the Doc itself? Check out "Email collaborators" in the "File" menu:

This is one of those "anything you can do to make it easy for people to work together" features.

Moodle Zoom Activity

Zoom is Linn-Benton Community College's official webinar/online meeting tool for academic and administrative uses. Its full-featured, yet simple interface works great for video/audio or audio-only live and recorded meetings and screenshare sessions.

We have recently implemented a new Activity type in our Moodle system to make it easy for you and your students to connect via Zoom. All you have to do is turn Editing on in your Moodle course and click the "Add an activity or resource" link in the section where you want to add the Activity:

For first-time users, the Zoom Activity is configured to create new Zoom accounts on-the-fly, with usernames based on the Moodle account email address.

Zoom is very simple and easy to learn via our original "All About Zoom" post, as well as Zoom's Training Resources page.

We are interested in hearing about your impressions and experiences with Zoom, so please feel free to comment below!

Accessible Google Slides

In our neverending quest for better ways to deliver accessible content to our students, we have had challenges with Google Slides. Well, look what I just found!

How to Create an Accessible Google Slide Deck

Moodle "Switch Role To…" Feature

Have you used the "switch role to…" feature to view your Moodle course as a student views it? If so, you will find the feature has moved from the Administration block to the dropdown menu for your Moodle profile in the upper right of the page: