YuJa Panorama provides automated and manual remediation tools to assist in fixing accessibility issues of content inside and outside of Moodle according to WCAG 2.1 guidelines. Fix Files in MoodleFix Files in PanoramaFix HTML with TinyMCEFix PDFsFix Files in Moodle The Accessibility Report helps you to find accessibility issues and fix them. Once you upload [...]
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You can use Bulk actions to change the availability, duplicate, move or delete multiple sections, activities, or resources in your course at once. This is a built in tool, and will be available in all your courses. AvailabilityDuplicateMoveDeleteAvailability Availability controls how activities and resources are displayed to students. You can use Bulk actions to change [...]
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Sometimes you may have optional or hidden Moodle activities that show up in the User and Grader Report. This can cause course totals to not be accurate and confusion for students that are viewing the gradebook. We recommend that you follow these steps to create a hidden Not graded category to eliminate these issues. Scroll [...]
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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 Action block has been deprecated due to unresolved issues with the plugin. You can still complete the same tasks through Bulk Actions and Import, which are core Moodle functions.
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The Mass Action block has been deprecated due to unresolved issues with the plugin. You can still complete the same tasks through Bulk Actions and Import, which are core Moodle functions.
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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 one-by-one can be time consuming when changing multiple [...]
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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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Text that is copy and pasted into the TinyMCE editor can contain some extra HTML formatting code that can affect how your text will appear in Moodle. Here are some tips to prevent and to fix formatting within Moodle. Clear Formatting Highlight the text that has formatting you wish to remove with your mouse OR [...]
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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. Click the Participants option from the secondary [...]
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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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Moodle Groups offer a way to organize students to work collaboratively on Moodle activities such as forums and assignments. You can also utilize restrict access and groups to customize the learning experience allowing certain groups to access specialized content. NOTE: You need to enable and create groups within your course before you can complete these steps [...]
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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. A common activity in Moodle is to have students submit a file or text to an assignment. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a forum as complete if the student makes a submission. NOTE: You can't automatically check to ensure your student's [...]
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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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