This site (actually a wordpress blog) is the main website for the class. It’s the main way that I (the professor) will get information to you (the class participants).
For class activities (turning things in, grading, discussions, etc), we will be using Moodle. There is a course “Moodle.” Note: this is on the University’s “innovate” server, rather than the regular server. This gives us access to a few extra features, and should be invisible to you (except that you have to look for the class in a different place).
The downside of this is that we have two separate web pages. This website (on graphics.cs.wisc.edu), and the Moodle.
Moodle is an experiment: I have never used it (or anything like it) before, but it should simplify a lot of the aspects of course management. WordPress is not very good for things like discussions.
On the other hand, WordPress has served me well as a way to broadcast information to classes. In theory, I could try this with Moodle. However, I thought I would start with experimenting with Moodle to see how well it does at the things WordPress is bad at, and then maybe migrate other things in the future.
So: be sure to check this site for announcements, descriptions of assignments and readings, etc. There will be links from this web page to the appropriate Moodle pages when you need to do things there. If I put information (such as an announcement) on the Moodle page, I will also put it here (probably with a link).
Over time, we’ll try out various aspects of Moodle and see how they work.
