Hidden Content If your course is a Work-in-Progress you can hide course content from students till you are ready for them to access it. This will prevent students from accessing content early and becoming confused or concerned about the content. You can also restrict access to activities (and sections) to prevent students from accessing activities [...]
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A Discussion within a forum is the start of a new Topic or the posing of a question that solicits replies from other students and/or your instructor. You can experiment with forums hands-on in our Moodle 101 Self-Guided Student Orientation. You may use Discussions in a forum to: Start a new conversation by posting your [...]
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The Text and Media Resource was previously called the Label resource in prior to Moodle 4.1. This resource allows you to place content directly on the course page, as opposed to creating a link to takes users to another page. Text and Media can be used to help us format the course page, emphasize certain [...]
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The Database activity allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things.
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Assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable activities have their own built-in grading tools. We recommend that you primarily grade these activities using the built-in grading tools. There are some tasks such as bulk entering empty grades, removing grade overrides, and excusing a student from an assignment that should be done using the gradebook in Single [...]
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Guest Access allows users to access a course where they are not enrolled. They can access the course via a direct link or the Manual Search for Moodle Courses from the Home Page. Guests can access: pages books files videos labels Guests cannot access: quizzes assignments databases feedback anything grade-able Scroll to the top of your [...]
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You can grade manual grade items in two different ways. The first is by manually entering your grades into the assignment using Single View. The second method is to import the grades from another source. NOTE: If you are using assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable Moodle activities you should be using their specific grading [...]
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The Q&A Forum requires students to reply to the question/prompt before they can see other responses (with a 15-minute delay). The Q&A Forum also requires the instructor to make an initial post every term before it can be used by students. Add a Question/PromptTroubleshootAdd a Question/Prompt To create a Q&A forum, add a new Forum [...]
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Rubrics in Moodle allow instructors to use criteria-based assessment forms to grade student work consistently, quickly, and transparently. The tool allows instructors to create their own rubrics from scratch or use an existing rubric that can be modified and filled out online. The rubric is available to students reviewing their grades, and can also be [...]
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Manually Enrolling Users into a Course in Moodle Students who are officially registered for a class will automatically be enrolled in the associated Moodle course. However, occasionally it may be necessary to manually enroll additional students, instructors, or course content viewers. Scroll to the top of your course page. Click the Participants option from the [...]
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The Attendance activity is designed for teachers to be able to take attendance during class, and for students to be able to view their own attendance record. A teacher can mark the attendance status of a student as Present, Absent, Late, or Excused. These status descriptions and associated point values can be modified to align with [...]
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A common Disability Services accommodation is for the student to have extended time to complete an exam. If you have time limits set on your quizzes in Moodle you will need to use one of these methods to make sure you are meeting the requirement of the student accommodation letter. Unlimited Test TakerExtended Time LimitUnlimited [...]
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When a screen reader sees a link... it verbalizes the word: link before reading the linked text. The linked URL may not be read, so users exploring pages in this way may not be able to tell exactly where a link leads. Log in to Moodle and navigate to the desired course. Enter the desired [...]
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Some students use screen readers to access online content. Screen readers do not read images, which makes them inaccessible to learners who rely on those readers. All other images should have ALT text—descriptive text provided. This will ensure your content is accessible to all students. NOTE: Review this WebAIM Alternative Text article to learn best [...]
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To be able to import course content into your course you will need to have Teacher, Staging Manager, or Course Content Viewer role within the course you wish to copy from. If you do not already have one of those roles in the course, you can request the instructor to manually enroll you in the [...]
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Follow the AIKEN format to import numerous multiple-choice and true/false questions at once into a question bank in Moodle. Open Microsoft Word or another text editor to compose/collect your questions. Whether you copy and paste or type your questions into the Word document, you will need to make sure you exactly follow the AIKEN format. The [...]
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Forum subscriptions allow you to, via email, stay up to date with the goings-on in a given forum. When you are subscribed to a forum you will be sent an email for each post made to the forum you are subscribed to. This can be desirable for keeping tabs on a conversation or annoying in [...]
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