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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Personalize your course on the Moodle Dashboard and the My courses page with a unique Course image file (.jpg, .png, or .gif) that represents your course. If you leave this section empty, your Course image will default to a colorful, geometric pattern. Scroll to the top of your main course page. Select the Settings item [...]
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The Completion Progress Block is already included in your Course Structure Template. In order to use its Completion Progress Bar you need to first set up completion tracking in your course. Follow these steps after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities for your course. NOTE: The block does NOT update immediately and [...]
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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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Communication with students is very important aspect of online learning. Quickmail can be used to compose a course message to your entire course, select groups, or specific users. These messages can be sent immediately or you can schedule your message to be sent at a specific date and time. If you haven't already you need [...]
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How-To Configure your Quickmail block There are a few default settings in your Quickmail configuration that you may wish to change to make the Quickmail block be more efficient. If you haven't already you need to Add the Quickmail Block to your course. Click on the Configuration link on the Quickmail Block. Select Course short [...]
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Student communication is important. Sometimes you may want to email the entire course or select students at the same time. You can use Microsoft Outlook to do this, but you may find it easier to use the Quickmail Block in Moodle. The Quickmail Block will allow you to compose these emails quickly and easily in [...]
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Setting up Completion Tracking The completion tracking feature allows you and your students to track course progress. Please follow these steps to utilize Completion Tracking in your course. Enable completion tracking in your course. Set up Activity Completion for activities and resources in your course: Individual Activities and Resources Allow students to manually mark the [...]
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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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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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Grades do not automatically move from Moodle to MyClackamas at the end of each term because not everyone uses Moodle or its gradebook; you must do this manually to officially submit grades. Login to the My.Clackamas.edu portal. Ensure you're in the Faculty view (if you aren't already, you'll find links to different views in the [...]
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Instructors can privately reply to a post within a Forum. This feedback method pairs well with Grading via Forum Ratings, but can be used to provide more pointed feedback or direction in any forum setup. Private reply visibility and functionality: Other students CANNOT see these responses. Those with Teacher permissions (or higher) in this course [...]
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This report will show you which activities your students have completed, as well as let you manually toggle the completion status of assigned work for students. NOTE: The report you access through the Course Completion Status block looks similar to this report, but it will not allow you to manually change the completion status. These [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows your students to clearly recognize and track the work they need to complete. It will have no effect on their grade. To add Activity Completion to existing activities and resources, use Bulk Edit Activity Completion. To make sure Activity Completion is set up properly for new activities and resources, [...]
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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. Select the Settings option on the Secondary Navigation. Expand the Appearance section. Change Show gradebook to students [...]
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You can add the Outlook email app to most smartphones and set it up to connect to your clackamas.edu email with the following instructions. This will allow you to send, receive and be notified of incoming emails to your college email account from your smart phone.
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Assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable activities have their own built-in grading tools. We recommend that you primarily grade these activities using the built-in grading tools. There are some tasks such as bulk entering empty grades, removing grade overrides, and excusing a student from an assignment that should be done using the gradebook in Single [...]
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Follow these directions to grant an extension for specific student(s) for a particular assignment or quiz. Log into Moodle and navigate to your course. Enter the Assignment or Quiz where you want to add an extension. Click the More option from the secondary navigation. Select Overrides. Click the Add user override button. From Override user, select the user [...]
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