A manual grade item populates a gradebook with work that occurs outside of Moodle: Work hosted elsewhere, such as required emails or outside tools from publishers Extra credit above normally graded work, such as a student earning 12/10 points on an assignment In-Class work Anything that is not completed using a Moodle Activity or Resource Scroll [...]
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The Moodle Book is similar to an e-book and—unlike a standard PDF or Word document—is designed to be accessible for all users, regardless of disabilities, devices, or screen sizes. The multi-page resource is compact and easily navigable via its table of contents. Create a BookAdd a ChapterEdit ChapterImporting Word DocumentsOrganize ChaptersCreate a Book A Moodle [...]
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The Ask & Share forum is a special forum for class announcements. This forum appears in the Course Essentials section of each course. Additionally, the Latest Announcements block can work in tandem with the Ask & Share forum to display recent posts. You and your students may post or reply to the Ask & Share [...]
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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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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 Students Manually Marked as Complete can [...]
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All forms of added security will make it harder to access something (intended or not); it's another hoop to jump though and some students may not be able to reliably jump through those hoops. You'll need to keep a balance of accessibility and security in mind when adding security measures of any kind. Mix it [...]
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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 uploaded the CORRECT file, but you can require that at least something is submitted before the item is marked as complete. We strongly advice that you not to use this type of Activity Completion to [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students participate in a forum. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a forum as complete if the student completes a specified number of posts/discussions/replies. NOTE: This will not check for a substantive post, [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. Ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology tests, where you want to encourage students to take a quiz/test until they pass it. Setup Quiz Activity Completion Enter the quiz where you want to set up activity completion. Click the Questions item from the Secondary Navigation. [...]
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Follow these steps after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities in your course. NOTE: The block does NOT update immediately and changes to a student's progress will update every few minutes. From the top-right corner of the page toggle Edit mode into the On position. Locate the Add a Block item at [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual. Use this process for one type of activity/resource at a time for the most control and the best results. Enter the course with completion tracking enabled. From the Secondary navigation expand the More button. Select [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This feature is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Quizzes, and other interactive activities. It can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student views a file, page, URL, or book. You may also consider using the honor system and letting students check off [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This option is ideal for tracking student progression through coursework handled outside of Moodle, such as completing readings or assigned tasks. For items handled within Moodle, you might instead automate this process so an activity checks off after meeting specified requirements. Locate the item [...]
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How-To Enable Completion Tracking 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 [...]
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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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What does this mean? The weight of a question within a quiz is the ratio of its worth compared to other questions in a quiz. If one question has a weight of 2 and all questions have a weight of 1 then that 2 point question is worth twice as much as its peers. The [...]
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Some quiz questions will grade automatically. For those that don't or for when you need to override a grade, you can manually grade quiz questions. Most types of quiz questions will be automatically graded by Moodle: True/False Multiple Choice All forms of Matching Calculated Cloze Short Answer* However, some question types must be manually graded [...]
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Extra Credit You can identify an extra credit item from the Gradebook Setup view. The Max grade will followed by a dashed underlined + symbol. Make an item Extra Credit If you want your category to contain an extra credit grade items you need to set the aggregation to one of our suggested aggregation methods: [...]
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