You can use Bulk actions to change the availability, duplicate, move or delete multiple sections, activities, or resources in your course at once. This is a built in tool, and will be available in all your courses. If you need to duplicate to another course or duplicate to a different section within this course you [...]
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Kaltura will automatically machine caption videos in English when recorded by or moved into My Media. However, if the spoken language is French, German, Russian, Spanish, or Vietnamese, you will need to request machine captioning in that specific language. Machine captioning is fast, simple, and decently accurate (75-85%) but may struggle with acronyms and industry-specific [...]
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A subsection can be placed anywhere within weeks/topics/sections. NOTE: You are limited to 52 total sections and subsections within your course. Enter your course and turn Edit mode on. Scroll to where you want to add the Subsection. Click the plus symbol to access the Add content drop-down menu. NOTE: If you want to add [...]
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A manual grade item populates a gradebook with work that occurs outside of Moodle: Work hosted elsewhere, such as required emails or outside tools from publishers Extra credit above normally graded work, such as a student earning 12/10 points on an assignment In-Class work Anything that is not completed using a Moodle Activity or Resource Scroll [...]
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Courses appear differently depending on the role you have in the course. It can be beneficial when designing a course to view the course as a student. You can use the switch role feature to temporarily view the course in another role. Enter the course you wish to view as a student. Click on the [...]
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When you delete activities and resources in Moodle the items are placed in the Recycle bin for 7 days. This will allow you to restore these items back to your course if you have made an error in deleting an item from your course. Click the More drop-down menu from the secondary navigation. Select Recycle [...]
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Kaltura is our long-term storage for multimedia at the college. All videos recorded to the Zoom Cloud will automatically upload to Kaltura once they are processed. You can also manually upload videos recorded with other tools. NOTE: We recommend that you rename and/or edit any videos in Kaltura since ALL Zoom Cloud recordings will be [...]
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The Mass Actions block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities in a Moodle course simultaneously, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. NOTE: In order to use the Mass Actions block to duplicate content from one course to another, you must first have an editing role (teacher or [...]
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The Mass Actions Block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities in a Moodle course simultaneously, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. NOTE: In order to use the Mass Actions block to duplicate content from one course to another, you must first have an editing role (teacher or [...]
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After copying a previous Moodle course over at the start of the term due dates will adjust based on the start date of the course. However you might want to verify or adjust the due dates or completion dates for some activities. Going into the activity settings one-by-one can be time consuming when changing multiple [...]
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When you Enable Completion Tracking in your course, all new activities and resources will default to Students can manually mark the activity as complete since that is the only option available for all activities and resources. If you wish to change the Default activity completion for specific types of activities and resources, you can do so [...]
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Video recordings stored in Zoom will only be available for 90 days due to its limited storage capacity. The original, unedited video will automatically upload to Kaltura (My Media or MediaSpace) for long-term storage. However, if your video does not upload to Kaltura properly, follow these instructions. Navigate to clackamas.zoom.us Click the Login to Zoom [...]
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Kaltura can be used for long-term multimedia storage, publishing, and sharing options. Follow these instructions to upload a video file, or YouTube video to Kaltura in Moodle. NOTE: Machine captioning in English is automatically added to videos uploaded into Kaltura. If the spoken language is French, German, Russian, Spanish, or Vietnamese, you will need to [...]
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Grades do not automatically move from Moodle to MyClackamas at the end of each term because not everyone uses Moodle or its gradebook; you must do this manually to officially submit grades. Login to the My.Clackamas.edu portal. Ensure you're in the Faculty view (if you aren't already, you'll find links to different views in the [...]
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Instructors can privately reply to a post within a Forum. This feedback method pairs well with Grading via Forum Ratings, but can be used to provide more pointed feedback or direction in any forum setup. Private reply visibility and functionality: Other students CANNOT see these responses. Those with Teacher permissions (or higher) in this course [...]
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Whole forum grading is an alternative to grading Forums using ratings. This allows you to view and grade all forum posts made by a specific student at one time. NOTE: If you want to provide detailed feedback when using whole forum grading, consider using a Moodle Rubric or Grading guide instead of Simple direct grading [...]
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These instructions assume the publisher has provided you with the needed information to set up an LTI integration with their software. If not, contact your publisher's representative for assistance. If you would like to use an LTI integration in more than one class as a preconfigured tool, you may want to connect your publisher's representative [...]
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Many textbook and course material publishers provide a direct integration into Moodle to limit the number of sites students need to log into. These instructions assume your publisher's representatives have already worked with Online Learning to perform the initial LTI integration. If this is a new LTI that is not already available in Moodle please [...]
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