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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Ideal for when you've imported duplicate or incorrect content into a course you can remove all content without making any changes to enrollments. NOTE: You will need to have either Teacher or Staging Staging Manager role in a course to make this change to a course. Enter the course with duplicated or incorrect content. Expand [...]
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Atto can get a little overzealous in applying formatting that is copied or dragged into the editor, especially in the Chrome Web Browser. This is most noticeable in fonts and background colors applied to the moved or duplicated text and it can be a real eyesore. When Does this Happen? When a course has content [...]
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This is new for us as of Moodle 3.6 (2019/SU term) and is part of a greater article on Moodle Groups and may be particularly effective as a requirement before students can participate in a group activity. NOTE: If you would like students to choose their own groups then this article is redundant and you [...]
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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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When naming your course mind that visible courses can be seen by folks in and outside of the college. To make them easier to find we do ask that some formatting be followed to allow Online Learning to provide timely support and manage old courses for archive. Archived courses are only searchable via the Course [...]
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In Moodle the provisioned course start date and course end date come though automatically as a course is scheduled and will automatically open and close on those set date and times (to the next hour). If you don't like those times, you can manually change the visibility of your course or you can preemptively modify [...]
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In the Groups tab, select the group you want to add participants to. Click the Add/remove users button. On the Add/remove users screen: Select the users you want to add to the group. → Multiple users may be selected by holding down the Ctrl or Command key. Click the Add button to add the users [...]
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Welcome to Moodle! To get you started we're going to go over some basic interface skills so you can get the most out of exploring your options in an online course before moving onto good habits and what tools may help you implement those habits! Use your mouse to explore Pay attention to how your [...]
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This is a new feature as of 2018/SU with our update to Moodlerooms 3.4 and provide instructors with a means of toggling the completion status of assigned work in a Moodle course. These steps require that you have Completion Tracking enabled and applied in your course. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu [...]
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The Activities block in Moodle is a very handy little block for teachers to let them see a quick overview of waiting submissions based on Activity type in Moodle. Want to see what Assignment activities are waiting to be graded without opening up every instance in your course via a dozen tabs or windows? The [...]
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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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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to require that a student start a discussion (new thread of conversation) and then reply to two peers. You can force students to do this before moving onto the next activity or topic/section of a course. This [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. Ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology tests, allowing a student to take a test until they pass it and are able to move on can help strengthen skills needed for following activities. Confirm Quiz Maximum Grade Enter the Quiz you want to be [...]
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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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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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You must already have an Attendance Activity created for these steps to function. Enter the Attendance Activity you wish to populate with sessions if you have not already. Click into the Add session tab of the Attendance Activity OPTIONAL: If you want to allow students to mark themselves as present in Moodle but ONLY while on-campus [...]
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