Moodle Activities & Resources

What Are Activities?

An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course. Usually, an activity is something that a student will do that it CAN interact directly with the Moodle Gradebook and often other students and/or the teacher.

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Common Activity Types – For more information click on an activity type.

• Assignments (text or file submissions)
• Attendance
• Database (have student assemble a collection of custom types of information such as journals or image galleries)
• Forum (discussions)
• Kaltura Media Assignment (video submission)
• Quiz (exam or test)
• Workshop (multi-phase collaboration with peer feedback)

What Are Resources?

A resource is an item that an instructor can use to support learning, such as a file or link. Moodle supports a range of resource types that are does NOT interact with the Moodle Gradebook. Once added, a resource appears as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the type of resource. Common types of resources available in Moodle are listed below.
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Common Resource Types – For more information click, on a resource type.

• Files – HTML website, File Documents (PDF, DOC, etc.)
• Label (visuals that appear on the main page of the course)
• Page (a sub-page of content within your course, ideal for videos and notes)