We had some time left over this year after finishing the regular curriculum, so I added on a short organic nomenclature unit. Tim Hunt and the Open University team maintain an outstanding Moodle plugin that uses the JSME Molecular Editor to accept student line drawing input, convert it to a SMILES …
I use Kahoot to review before tests and Moodle for quizzes, but sometimes I want the same question set for both. After spending way too much time typing the same questions twice, I made an Excel file based on the official Kahoot! upload template and wrote a second tab that…
Running labs is without a doubt one of the best parts of teaching chemistry, but grading papers is among the worst. Here's how I outsourced that part of my job to a computer, saving hours of work per week and providing instant feedback on student work at the same time.
I've developed a bank of over 1,000 original chemistry assessment items for Moodle. Question types include multiple choice, click and drag, and calculated questions with randomly generated numbers in the prompt. (In fact, for nearly every question in which students must make a calculation, new random numbers are…
