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Sending Messages and Contacting Students in Moodle

Working with Messages in Moodle Tool Name with Article Link Announcements Forum Bulk Moodle messaging (Participants page) Bulk Email through Self Service (MyClackamas Portal) Quickmail block (third party plugin) General Guide Ideal for one-way course announcements that are not time sensitive in a visible Moodle course. (Don’t forget to verify enrollment!) Ideal for using the [...]

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Grading the Kaltura Media Assignment activity in Moodle

Once your students have started submitting videos to you you may begin grading and providing feedback to these submissions and if enabled, encourage re-submissions with improved work. Enter the Kaltura Media Assignment activity you wish to grade Click the Grade submissions button A list of all students in the course will appear TIP: if there [...]

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Kaltura Media Assignment (Video Submissions)

Working with Kaltura Media Assignment in Moodle The Kaltura Media Assignment activity is where you can have students submit a video directly to you for grading. It can be either a pre-recorded and edited video file (possibly ideal for a multimedia course) or it could be recorded on-the-spot for a less polished video assignment showing [...]

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Moodle Messages: Multiple Students at Once

A great way to start the term is to open a one-on-one communication channel with your students through Moodle's Messaging tools. Begin the Converversation Enter your Moodle course. From the Nav Drawer click the Participants option. Manually select the students you would like to contact. and/or Click the Select All link below the student listing. [...]

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Zoom Video Conferencing

Zoom is a synchronous online collaboration tool that can be used to conduct and record online lectures, host office hours, set up group meeting spaces, and more—all with annotation and whiteboard capabilities.

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Quiz: Manually Grading Attempts and Questions

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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The Announcements Activity

The Announcements forum (previously called the News Forum) is a special forum for class announcements. This forum is automatically created for each course and for the front page of the Moodle site. By default, it is placed in the top of the center section and only teacher, manager and administrator roles may add posts or reply to posts. [...]

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Assignment Activity (File Submission)

Working with Assignments in Moodle The Assignment activity is essentially a file drop-box for students to send you files. Often these files are Word Documents or PDFs but you can request any file type from your students and optionally limit what types of files student can submit. CreateGradeFor StudentsAccessibilityTroubleshootCreate These instructions cover some of the [...]

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Automatic Forwarding of Clackamas Emails to a Personal Email

To keep up with emails coming into your Clackamas email it can be helpful to forward messages to a personal account you check regularly. Another method for easy access of your email is to install the Outlook Mobile App and sync it to your Clackamas account. You will be able to reply to these forwarded [...]

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Contact students in MyClackamas (Self Service)

On the occasion that Moodle is down or you otherwise wish to contact all or select students from a course you are teaching you can contact them through Self Service in the myClackamas portal. Navigate and then login to the MyClackamas portal Select the Faculty view (if you have more than one view) Click the [...]

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