About us

We are Learning Technology & Innovation (LT&I)

LT&I are part of Open Learning (OL), and complement CELT, and TRU IT, supporting teaching and learning. Our Production and Media teams develop online and distance courses for OL, while the Learning Technology team is focused on supporting our campus community.

Office Hours

Drop in to our virtual office hours every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10:00 – 12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00, to work with our technologists and have your questions answered.

Drop-in Support

The Learning Management system

Access: https://moodle.tru.ca – Login using your TRU ID. Course “shells”, instructor assignment and student enrolments mirror the Course Schedule

Moodle Orientation is our latest resource for help documentation, tutorials and FAQs. https://moodleorientation.trubox.ca.

Learning Without Walls is a student-focused Moodle course with resources on learning technology support. Please direct your students here for help, or check it out yourself.

Teaching and meeting online

‘BBB’ is integrated into Moodle, but you can access it for your private use as well.

https://bigblue1.tru.ca

BigBlueButton is integrated into Moodle for virtual office hours, meetings and online classes. Recordings are automatically archived into your Moodle course, (although you are not able to edit them directly).

Upload and share your videos

Students can watch your videos in Moodle or you can share to a wider audience.

https://media.tru.ca

Kaltura is used for hosting videos, and is fully integrated into Moodle as well. Create and embed videos into your Moodle course, or have students submit video assignments. Kaltura Capture is available to make simple screencasts but get in touch if you need to do a more complex presentation.

Publish online courses, e-portfolios, research

We maintain an instance of WordPress at https://trubox.ca

Some samples of what WordPress can do are in this gallery.

LT&I also offer a suit of workshops each semester that are not just on Moodle, while we offer those to, we like to include a range of online learning tools and strategies. Join us to learn more about what Moodle can do for you, get a creative spark to learn and try something new or gain a little professional development. Check out our offerings at https://workshops.trubox.ca. Scroll through to see past descriptions and let us know if there is something you are interested in learning more about!

Are you feeling overwhelmed and do not want to learn a new web conferencing system? TRU is able to offer Zoom, Zoom licenses are also available via IT Service Desk: https://www.tru.ca/distance/contact/helpdesk.html

Communicating with students and/or amongst teams can be hard. LT&I offers Mattermost as an alternative online communication system, an open source system similar to Slack: https://matter.tru.ca. Contact us for more information regarding Mattermost.

Are you looking to have some fun? Why not create some interactive learning activities: H5P (Moodle or WordPress)? Check out these examples below an contact us for help to create your own!

Check out Teaching Unbound for more help. Teaching Unbound is a resource developed by TRU’s Learning Technology and Innovation Department, Open Learning, and the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. This site brings together all the just-in-time resources and programming we developed during the Covid-19 crisis. A wider range of learning design, learning technology and other resources, mostly assembled during the pandemic period are found at https://teaching.trubox.ca

Meet the TRU community

Listen to the You Got This! https://yougotthis.trubox.ca/

Contact us:

Director of LT&I: Brian Lamb
Coordinators, Educational Technologies: Jamie Drozda, Brenna Clarke Gray, Melanie Latham
Learning Technologist: Brad Forsyth

Email:
moodlesupport@tru.ca and/or learningtech@tru.ca