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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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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You can prevent access to an activity, resource, or section either before or after a specific date. This is not needed for activities like assignments that have built in Availability settings, but can be useful for those that do not. Locate the activity, resource, or section/topic in your course that you want to ONLY be available [...]
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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. Select the More option from the secondary navigation. Select [...]
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In the Moodle gradebook you can modify how you would like grades displayed. You can choose to show the actual score (real), a percentage, a letter grade, or a combination. The current default display for the gradebook is Real (Percentage), which displays the actual total with the percentage in parentheses. Default Grade Display TypeIndividual Grade [...]
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This setting is used to ensure that the lowest graded assignments (you choose how many) are NOT used when calculating a category's total within. NOTE: It is strongly recommended this not be used on a points gradebook category unless all items are the same value. Scroll to the top of the main page of your [...]
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You can break your quiz into sections or topics. In order to use sections, you much first add page breaks to your quiz before you can add sections. Quiz sections will allow you to name and determine if you would like questions shuffled within that page and subsequent pages. Enter the Quiz you want to [...]
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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 BreaksManual Page BreaksRemove Page BreaksAutomatic [...]
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In the gradebook, you can move grade items one at a time to a specific location or you can move multiple selected grade items to a gradebook category. Move Single ItemMove Multiple ItemsMove Single Item Move a Single Item in your Gradebook Move items into an expected order (Assignment #1, Assignment #2, etc.) or move [...]
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