There are multiple ways to assign participants to Moodle Groups. This method will allow students to choose which group they would like to be a part of. NOTE: You must first enable groups in your course, create the groups you wish for students to pick from, and the create groupings if you would like all [...]
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The course start date and course end date come through automatically for provisioned courses. Courses will automatically open and close on those date and times. NOTE: Do not change the course start date and end date of your provisioned courses in Moodle. These dates align with those provided to Course Scheduling (as displayed in myClackamas [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students earns a specific score on a quiz. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a quiz as complete if the student earns a passing grade. This is ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology [...]
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These steps require that Completion tracking be enabled in your course. You can have students track their progression by manually marking activities and resources as complete. Although, you can have Moodle automatically mark activities and resources complete by meeting specified conditions there may be times you wish to let students check off their own progress. [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows your students to clearly recognize and track the work they need to complete. It will have no effect on their grade. To add Activity Completion to existing activities and resources, use Bulk Edit Activity Completion. To make sure Activity Completion is set up properly for new activities and resources, [...]
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These steps will help you design your gradebook using the Percentage Layout. This is just one part of the gradebook setup that you will need to complete. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course. Select the Grades option from the secondary navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the drop-down menu. [...]
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A Question Bank category creates a separate pool for your quiz questions. This allows you to organize the questions by chapter or topic, or pull random questions from these categories. Scroll to the top of the main course page. From the secondary navigation, click the More menu. Select the Question Bank option. From the drop-down [...]
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The Question Bank allows you to create, preview, and edit questions in a course (rather than in an individual quiz). These questions can be used in a Quiz or select questions can be used in a Lesson activity. Questions can be organized in both categories and subcategories. Scroll to the top of the main course [...]
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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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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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You can set a password to prevent users from accessing a quiz. There may be times where you forget the password or if you inherited a course from another instructor you may not know it. You can use these steps to check and update the password for your current course. Enter the quiz. Click Settings from [...]
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What does this mean? The numbers in the far-right column on the Edit Quiz page represent individual value for each question. This is, by default, one (1) point but the instructor you can alter the weight of individual questions. For example, you might want an essay question to be worth five (5) points and a [...]
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Forum activities are generally used to stimulate online discussions. NOTE: All courses come with an Ask & Share Forum to use for class-wide announcements. This forum is part of the Course Structure Template and does not adhere to the following instructions. Please contact online@clackamas.edu for assistance if you need to create an Ask & Share [...]
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If a student reports they cannot see or are unable to submit work to an assignment activity check the following assignment settings: Enter the Assignment activity. Select the Settings option from the secondary navigation. Expand the Availability section. If Allow submissions from is enabled, ensure that this date has already passed. If Cut-off date is [...]
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A manual grade item is used for work that occurs outside of Moodle. NOTE: These steps cannot used to delete activities completed inside of Moodle. To remove Moodle activities like Forums, Quizzes or Assignments you the activity grade type setting to None or delete them from the main course page/weekly view of your course. Scroll to [...]
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Extra Credit You can identify an extra credit item from the Gradebook Setup view. The Max grade will followed by a dashed underlined + symbol. Make an item Extra Credit If you want your category to contain an extra credit grade items you need to set the aggregation to one of our suggested aggregation methods: [...]
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You can quickly add the following file types to your course: Word Documents PowerPoint Files Compressed Zip Files Images Any file you want to make available for your students to download DO NOT upload video files directly to Moodle. Review the multimedia options in Moodle article for better ways to add videos to your course(s). Enter [...]
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This process is ideal for creating similarly configured activities or resources for consistency of content. NOTE: To duplicate multiple activitis or resources within a course at the same time you can use Bulk actions, and to duplicate to another course you can use the Mass actions block. Navigate to the course you want to duplicate [...]
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