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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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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This Technology Toolkit presents the basic resources that those new to online teaching should explore. Should you require additional resources or more detailed instruction, please contact online@clackamas.edu. Prepare Students for Learning Online Moodle 101 Self-Guided Orientation Moodle 101 is a self-guided orientation that will prepare students for online learning and make sure they have the [...]
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For preventing date-based early access to any resource or activity (not needed for assignment activities as it has a built in feature for this.) Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Turn editing on option. Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to [...]
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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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If you want to tweak what status you can grant students each session you want to change the settings. Enter the Attendance activity. Click into the Status set tab to set what possible grades each student can get per attendance session. This page is where we set what values can be given for each session [...]
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Change the Default for All Grade Totals The Current default display in the gradebook is Real (Percentage) and may appear overwhelming. You can change this in the course settings for each of your noted courses with the following instructions: Enter the course you wish to modify gradebook defaults in Expand the Actions Menu (Gear Icon) [...]
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This setting is used to ensure that the lowest graded assignments (you choose how many) are NOT factored into a category's total worth within your gradebook. It is strongly recommended this not be used on a points gradebook unless all items in a category are the same value. Expand the Actions Menu (gear Icon) from the top-right [...]
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You can now break your quiz into clear sections or topics! Enter the Quiz you wish to add Quiz Section Headings to Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Edit Quiz option. Next to the page break you want to apply a heading to Click the Add [...]
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In our previous version of Moodle there was an up and down arrow that, one step at a time, moved a quiz question slowly up or down the page. In this Moodle update there is now the familiar Drag and Drop icon, allowing you to use your mouse to move quiz questions more easily. To [...]
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This is called pagination- it's controlling how many questions appear on a given page in a quiz, after doing this you can manually add or remove these automatic page breaks. Adding new questions to a quiz after applying this setting will enforce that pagination on all new questions. Automatic Page Breaks Enter the Quiz you [...]
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In the Moodle gradebook you can move things around either one at a time and fine-tune their location in the process or you can grab a bunch of items at once and move ALL of them to the end of a selected gradebook category. One or Many, Move to a Category This is ideal for [...]
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