You might have a student that needs access to course content early based on a DRC accommodation or because they have an upcoming conflict and need to work ahead. You can choose to show the course content for all students by modifying the week/topic/section visibility. If you would like only the selected student to have [...]
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Grade categories not only organize grade items for the course, but they also have their own aggregated grade which is calculated from the items it contains. We have a number of articles that describe the most common uses for gradebook categories in more details: Creating a points-based gradebook Creating a percentage-based gradebook Create an ungraded [...]
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You can use Bulk actions to change the availability, duplicate, move or delete multiple sections, activities, or resources in your course at once. This is a built in tool, and will be available in all your courses. If you need to duplicate to another course or duplicate to a different section within this course you [...]
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You can prevent access to an activity, resources, or section based on the group that a student belongs to. This can be helpful if you want to allow certain students to access a specific resource, activity or section that others do not need to access. This can be helpful when courses have been cross-listed or [...]
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Sometimes you may have optional or hidden Moodle activities that show up in the User and Grader Report. This can cause course totals to not be accurate and confusion for students that are viewing the gradebook. We recommend that you follow these steps to create a hidden Not graded category to eliminate these issues. Scroll [...]
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Kaltura will automatically machine caption videos in English when recorded by or moved into My Media. However, if the spoken language is French, German, Russian, Spanish, or Vietnamese, you will need to request machine captioning in that specific language. Machine captioning is fast, simple, and decently accurate (75-85%) but may struggle with acronyms and industry-specific [...]
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A subsection can be placed anywhere within weeks/topics/sections. NOTE: You are limited to 52 total sections and subsections within your course. Enter your course and turn Edit mode on. Scroll to where you want to add the Subsection. Click the plus symbol to access the Add content drop-down menu. NOTE: If you want to add [...]
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Kaltura is our long-term storage for multimedia at the college. All videos recorded to the Zoom Cloud will automatically upload to Kaltura once they are processed. You can also manually upload videos recorded with other tools. NOTE: We recommend that you rename and/or edit any videos in Kaltura since ALL Zoom Cloud recordings will be [...]
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YuJa Panorama, which is already integrated into your Moodle course, helps check and improve the accessibility of course materials and resources. Panorama can also generate alternative formats of documents for you and students. NOTE: YuJa Panorama can take some time to process your files. Please be patient while you wait for the file to upload. [...]
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The Mass Actions Block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities in a Moodle course simultaneously, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. NOTE: In order to use the Mass Actions block to duplicate content from one course to another, you must first have an editing role (teacher or [...]
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When you Enable Completion Tracking in your course, all new activities and resources will default to Students can manually mark the activity as complete since that is the only option available for all activities and resources. If you wish to change the Default activity completion for specific types of activities and resources, you can do so [...]
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Kaltura Capture can record your screen, camera, and audio all together or separately. The settings for screen, camera, and audio are optimized by default, so you can start recording right away! Before getting started, you'll need to download Kaltura Capture on your computer.
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Extra Credit is Not Calculating Correctly For extra credit to calculate correctly you can either have grade item(s) marked as extra credit OR a single category marked as extra credit. Do NOT put extra credit grade items inside of a category marked as extra credit. To fix you will need to: Disable the extra credit [...]
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Sharing Kaltura Videos Since Zoom Cloud Recording storage is limited, we recommend that you host your videos in Kaltura. Kaltura videos can be accessed using My Media in Moodle (online.clackamas.edu) and MediaSpace (video.clackamas.edu). Kaltura Video Resource in MoodleEmbed Kaltura Video in Moodle ResourceShare Link to Kaltura Video Outside MoodleKaltura Video Resource in Moodle The Kaltura Video [...]
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Kaltura can be used for long-term multimedia storage, publishing, and sharing options. Follow these instructions to upload a video file, or YouTube video to Kaltura in Moodle. NOTE: Machine captioning in English is automatically added to videos uploaded into Kaltura. If the spoken language is French, German, Russian, Spanish, or Vietnamese, you will need to [...]
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These instructions assume the publisher has provided you with the needed information to set up an LTI integration with their software. If not, contact your publisher's representative for assistance. If you would like to use an LTI integration in more than one class as a preconfigured tool, you may want to connect your publisher's representative [...]
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Many textbook and course material publishers provide a direct integration into Moodle to limit the number of sites students need to log into. These instructions assume your publisher's representatives have already worked with Online Learning to perform the initial LTI integration. If this is a new LTI that is not already available in Moodle please [...]
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Moodle isn't designed to be printed. It can be, but isn't particularly attractive or suggested in most cases. If no other options are available, you can use these steps to print your Moodle Quiz. Use the Chrome Web Browser; Firefox is not recommended as its printout is a little more difficult to read. Duplicate your [...]
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