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.) Enter your desired course. Toggle Edit mode into the On position (if it's not already) Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to ONLY be available after [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual. Use this process for one type of activity/resource at a time for the most control and the best results. Enter the course with completion tracking enabled. From the Secondary navigation expand the More button. Select [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Quizzes and other interactive activities, it can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student views a file, page, URL or Book. If you can't find a good way to automate this, consider using the honor [...]
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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 Select the Grades option on the Secondary [...]
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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. Scroll to the top of the main page of [...]
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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 From the Secondary navigation at the top of the page click the Questions item. Next to the page break you want to apply a heading to Click the Add menu Click the + a [...]
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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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Fancy Title Optional Summary 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. Move Single ItemMove To CategoryMove Single Item [...]
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