In Moodle the provisioned course start date and course end date come though automatically as a course is scheduled and will automatically open and close on those set date and times (to the next hour). If you don't like those times, you can manually change the visibility of your course or you can preemptively modify [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. Ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology tests, allowing a student to take a test until they pass it and are able to move on can help strengthen skills needed for following activities. Confirm Quiz Maximum Grade Enter the Quiz you want to be [...]
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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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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. Ideal for students tracking progression through coursework such as completing readings or assigned tasks handled outside of Moodle. For items handled in Moodle you might instead automate this process so an activity checks off after meeting requirements. View of student-markable completion tracking with editing turned [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows the instructor to put check boxes next to work for students. It will have no effect on their grade. It will also not be track-able on a course-level without further configuration. (They just get the visual confirmation of check boxes, which can be helpful for students in managing and planning [...]
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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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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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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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This is an element of the gradebook setup for a percentage-based gradebook. Repeat these steps for each grade category you mention in your syllabus. Create a new Category Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Gradebook Setup option. Scroll to the bottom of this page. Click the [...]
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A Question Bank category creates a separate pool for your quiz questions so they can be pulled from by chapter or topic and are easier to find and identify with the minimal context provided by viewing questions outside of a quiz (you can only see the question type and a little of the question name [...]
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The question bank is generally a part of a course rather than any individual quiz but it can be used to feed individual quizzes from pools of questions within a category or categories. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More... option [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT Edit settings) link. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the trash can icon (Delete) to remove the question. Click the [...]
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Questions added in this way can only be used by this quiz. If you want to reuse a quiz question on weekly quizzes as well as midterm or final exams, you should create the questions in the Question Bank of your course. Enter the Quiz you wish to modify. Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) [...]
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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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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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If you inherited a course from another instructor or just plain don't remember the password you set last term/year you, as an instructor, can check and update that password for you and your students. Enter the Quiz in question as you normally would (Editing does not need to be enabled) Locate the Actions Menu (gear [...]
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What does this mean? The weight of a question within a quiz is the ratio of its worth compared to other questions in a quiz. If one question has a weight of 2 and all questions have a weight of 1 then that 2 point question is worth twice as much as its peers. The [...]
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