Courses appear differently depending on the role you have in the course. It can be beneficial when designing a course to view the course as a student. You can use the switch role feature to temporarily view the course in another role. Enter the course you wish to view as a student. Click on the [...]
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When you delete activities and resources in Moodle the items are placed in the Recycle bin for 7 days. This will allow you to restore these items back to your course if you have made an error in deleting an item from your course. Click the More drop-down menu from the secondary navigation. Select Recycle [...]
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The Mass Actions block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities in a Moodle course simultaneously, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. NOTE: In order to use the Mass Actions block to duplicate content from one course to another, you must first have an editing role (teacher or [...]
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The Mass Actions Block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities in a Moodle course simultaneously, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. NOTE: In order to use the Mass Actions block to duplicate content from one course to another, you must first have an editing role (teacher or [...]
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Change Multiple Due Dates using the Dates Report After copying a previous Moodle course over at the start of the term due dates will adjust based on the start date of the course. However you might want to verify or adjust the due dates or completion dates for some activities. Going into the activity settings [...]
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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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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. Refer to the Communications Comparison Chart to determine which option will work best for your needs. Begin the Conversation Scroll to the top of your course page (if you are not already there). From [...]
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In order to be able to search for your courses easily, we recommend that you adhere to the following naming conventions. Course Short Name Conventions Course Short Name should include (if applicable) the following elements (1-4) with spaces between each in this general order: the Year/Term (WI, SP, SU, or FA) in YYYY or YYYY/TT [...]
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The course start date and course end date come through automatically for provisioned courses. Courses will automatically open and close on those date and times. NOTE: Do not change the course start date and end date of your provisioned courses in Moodle. These dates align with those provided to Course Scheduling (as displayed in myClackamas [...]
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Select Participants from the secondary menu. Select Groups from the tertiary menu. 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 [...]
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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 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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The Activities block lists the different activity and resource types used in your course. Select a specific activity or resource type to display a list of all the items of that type in your course with some additional detail. Each activity type displays different information depending on your role (student or instructor). NOTE: This block [...]
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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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