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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Sometimes the automated process to drop a student from a course fails or you need to remove a user you had previously manually enrolled in your course. Any manually enrolled participant can be un-enrolled. NEW AS OF 2023/SP: Automatically enrolled individuals will need to be officially dropped from the section by Registration and Records for [...]
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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 Scroll to the top of your course page (if you are not already there). From the Secondary Navigation click the Participants item. Manually select the students you would like to contact. [...]
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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. Enter the course that you'll be using groups in. Ensure you’ve already… enabled groups, created those groups (and [...]
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Enter the course you want to create Groups in. Click the Participants in the secondary menu. Expand the Tertiary Menu Select the Groups menu option. NOTE: If you don't see a Groups option you may need to first enable groups your course. Click on the Create group button at the bottom. On the screen that [...]
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Enrollments in Moodle is a wide and varied topic that spans a couple of different tools and terminologies and is dependent on a few systems across campus. CreateGradeTroubleshootCreate Adding a New Enrollment As a teacher with a Moodle shell you can give other people access to your Moodle content as long as they have a [...]
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These instructions assume you already have sessions and an attendance activity created. Enter the Attendance activity in your course. Locate the current session and under the Actions menu click the Take Attendance ▶︎ button For each student check the value earned and make any desired remarks. Default Settings Cheat sheet: P stands for present (full [...]
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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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If you already have an Attendance activity from last term you need only to populate it with more sessions. There is only a need to make a second Attendance Activity if you have different types of attendance to take such as lecture attendance and lab attendance with each type being worth a different point value. [...]
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At the end of each term your course will automatically hide on the course end date listed in Moodle. In cases where an incomplete has occurred you may want to leave the course open but this effects all of your students which not ideal so we suggest the creation of an Incomplete course copy. Incomplete [...]
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Moodle enrollments are the setting in a course to dictate who has access to what content. Common Roles (Who can Do/See What)Other RolesCommon Roles (Who can Do/See What) Common Roles: Who Can Do/See What The most common roles and basic permissions, in order of access/power are: Guest A guest typically: does not have access to [...]
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Guest Access to a course may be enabled to allow students who... are logged in to be redirected with a link to a course they are not enrolled in where they can view read-only content do not necessarily have a Clackamas account. These individuals will need to first login on our bypass Login page Click Login [...]
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Typically students are automatically enrolled in any Moodle course(s) for which they have registered... but, occasionally, it is necessary to manually enroll a student, instructor or course content viewer. Once you've determined that manually enrolling a user is your best option, here is how to proceed: Scroll to the top of your course page (if [...]
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Setting up the attendance activity can be a bit of work but once done using it to take attendance can save a lot of time. It's not perfect for all situations and needs to be setup at the start of every term but it can still be a major time-saver. CreateGradeTroubleshootTabCreate Adding a New Attendance [...]
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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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At the start of each term, you’ll want to take a moment to verify student enrollment for each of your courses. This is to make sure the students that have been put into your Moodle course match the class registration list for that course. Check Moodle Enrollments These should be automatically pulled from our student [...]
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Working with Groups in Moodle This is an advanced topic. You should be somewhat familiar with the Moodle interface and setting up courses before you try the following. An instructor can organize users into Groups across an entire course and within particular activities of a course. At its simplest, creating groups allows you to organize [...]
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