You can now enable a feature that allows students to check off work as they complete it in Moodle. This may appeal as a way for students to visually track progress from the main page of a course as well as give them the satisfying feeling of literally checking off a task. You can also use this tool [...]
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Create a Database Activity for Sharing Images from Students that may or may not allow for comments by yourself and other students. Create the Database Activity Container Navigate to the course you wish to add an activity to. Turn editing on Scroll down tot he section you want to add the database activity to. Click [...]
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Ideal for webpages constructed by Dreamweaver or other small websites consisting of multiple .html pages, images and/or other resources that are not needed outside of Moodle. Not ideal for items that need regular upkeep but good for quick uploads of preexisting data. Turn Editing on in Moodle Open up File folder with files you want [...]
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Rubrics in Moodle 2.9 provide instructors with criteria-based assessment forms that can be used to grade student work more consistently, quickly, and transparently. The tool allows instructors to create their own rubrics from scratch or use an existing rubric that can be modified and filled out online. The completed rubric is available to students reviewing [...]
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This is a feature that must be enabled in your class by your instructor (so you may not see it in all or any of your classes). If you don't see check-boxes next to activities then you don't have Completion Tracking available to you in this course. If you do have Completion Tracking enabled in [...]
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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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If you have Teacher, Manager, or Course Content Viewer roles within Moodle, you are able to copy content from another course into your own. If you do not have access to the other course, you can request the assigned instructor enroll you with the Course Content Viewer Role. Don't want to whole course? You can [...]
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Preparing Quiz Questions for Importation using the Aiken Format While there are different ways you can import questions into Moodle for use in your course, the process outlined here can be viewed as a baseline approach that works when other options are more problematic. NOTE: this process works only for Multiple Choice and True/False questions. [...]
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Forum subscriptions allow you to, via email, stay up to date with the goings-on in a given forum. When you are subscribed to a forum you will be sent an email for each post made to the forum you are subscribed to. This can be desirable for keeping tabs on a conversation or annoying in [...]
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A meta course enrollment will take any and all folks enrolled in one Moodle course and automatically push them into another course of your choosing. Some examples of use are: Mimicking cross-listed courses (that couldn't be cross-listed in scheduling for technical reasons) Running multiple sections of the same course in a single Moodle course Creating [...]
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Take the following steps to Restore materials from a course Archive (a backup file stored locally) into a new course. NOTE: This process will clear out most other course data (if present). If you don't want that you can just add bits and pieces to your course via import. Start on the course page that [...]
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NOTE: Beginning 2019 Summer term courses will automatically open and close based on the provisioned start and end dates of a course in Moodle. You can change these settings after the fact or change your course start and end dates to reflect your preferred availability. Default Course start date is the Monday of the first [...]
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These instructions are to import content from a course, this can be a single item you want to bring over or the ability to pick-and-choose content from a course. To import the entire contents of a course see our start of term procedure to copy over course content from one course to another. To allow [...]
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