This is ideal for when you want to give a student a second chance to take a quiz for technical or other unique situations and still want to keep their first attempt on record or factored into their grade. If you want to provide students with a clean slate on their quiz and completely remove [...]
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Sometimes there are technical difficulties and a student will submit a quiz that is either empty or only partially filled out. In cases where you would like to give that student a fresh start you can delete their own attempt so that they can make a new one, unaffected by the erroneous grade. If you [...]
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These steps require that completion tracking be enabled in your course. NOTE: You can't automatically check to ensure your student's upload the CORRECT file, but you can require that at least something is submitted before they can move on. We strongly that advise you do not use submission of a file as an item to [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual check-off only. We suggest using this process one type of activity/tool at a time for the most control and best results. Enter the course in question that already has completion tracking enabled Locate the Actions [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Databases and other interactive activities, it can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student at LEAST opens a page or URL or Book. If you can't find a good way to automate this, consider using [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. Ideal for students tracking progression through coursework such as completing readings or assigned tasks handled outside of Moodle. For items handled in Moodle you might instead automate this process so an activity checks off after meeting requirements. View of student-markable completion tracking with editing turned [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows the instructor to put check boxes next to work for students. It will have no effect on their grade. It will also not be track-able on a course-level without further configuration. (They just get the visual confirmation of check boxes, which can be helpful for students in managing and planning [...]
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If you already have an Attendance activity from last term you need only to populate it with more sessions. There is only a need to make a second Attendance Activity if you have different types of attendance to take such as lecture attendance and lab attendance with each type being worth a different point value. [...]
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Change the Default for All Grade Totals The Current default display in the gradebook is Real (Percentage) and may appear overwhelming. You can change this in the course settings for each of your noted courses with the following instructions: Enter the course you wish to modify gradebook defaults in Expand the Actions Menu (Gear Icon) [...]
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This setting is used to ensure that the lowest graded assignments (you choose how many) are NOT factored into a category's total worth within your gradebook. It is strongly recommended this not be used on a points gradebook unless all items in a category are the same value. Expand the Actions Menu (gear Icon) from the top-right [...]
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While student grades could be appearing incorrectly in the gradebook for a number of reasons the most common issues we see can be fixed with the following steps. Enter the gradebook of the course with oddly low grades. Click into the Setup tab. Locate the name of your course on the table of grade items [...]
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This will ensure that any grade items and categories will total in points rather than "Out of 100" , which is probably not what your points add up to. Locate the Actions menu (gear icon), click the Gradebook Setup link Locate the title of your course. (In my Example it's "Points Based Gradebook Example") Click the Edit [...]
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Moodle's Gradebook aligns with the best practice in online pedagogy to provide learners with a well designed and up-to-date gradebook. However, if your gradebook needs some work, you can temporarily hide it until it's ready: Enter your Moodle course. Expand the Actions Menu (gear Icon) in the top-right corner of the page. Select the Edit [...]
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Enter the course in question Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More… option from the very bottom of the menu. Under the Course Administration tab you’ll find the Question Bank section. Select the Export option. From within the File format section select the option you wish [...]
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Before importing questions into Moodle we strongly suggest you create a Category in the question bank for each chapter or topic that you will want to import questions into for easy sorting and picking. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More… [...]
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A Question Bank category creates a separate pool for your quiz questions so they can be pulled from by chapter or topic and are easier to find and identify with the minimal context provided by viewing questions outside of a quiz (you can only see the question type and a little of the question name [...]
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The question bank is generally a part of a course rather than any individual quiz but it can be used to feed individual quizzes from pools of questions within a category or categories. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More... option [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) in the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT the Edit settings) link. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the Select multiple items button above the quiz, so [...]
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