Sometimes something will appear missing or misbehaving when attempting to grade assignments one-at-a-time. If none of the below options work you can always grade assignments offline entirely! Can't see or Grade all Students A new issue as of Moodle 3.8 this is the cause of an overzealous Filter on your selection of students. It can [...]
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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 able to see these responses. Others with Teacher permissions (or higher) in [...]
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This is new for us as of Moodle 3.6 (2019/SU term) and is part of a greater article on Moodle Groups and may be particularly effective as a requirement before students can participate in a group activity. NOTE: If you would like students to choose their own groups then this article is redundant and you [...]
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If you do not have a Staging Area, this article will do you no good! Request one via the OLET ticketing system and we can make you a space to call your own. If you aren't sure if you have one... take a look; it may be you just forgot about it! Find your Staging Area: [...]
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While student grades could be appearing incorrectly in the gradebook for a number of reasons the most common issues we see can be fixed with the following steps. Enter the gradebook of the course with oddly low grades. Click into the Setup tab. Locate the name of your course on the table of grade items [...]
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Moodle's Gradebook aligns with the best practice in online pedagogy to provide learners with a well designed and up-to-date gradebook. However, if your gradebook needs some work, you can temporarily hide it until it's ready: Enter your Moodle course. Expand the Actions Menu (gear Icon) in the top-right corner of the page. Select the Edit [...]
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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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If a student reports they are unable to submit work to an assignment activity or even can't see it check the following settings: Enter the Assignment activity in question Locate the Action Menu (gear icon) in the top-right of the page. Select the Edit Settings option. Expand the Availability section. If Allow submissions from is enabled, [...]
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If you have an assignment activity with cases of students submitting drafts instead of proper submissions this can be disorienting as: It will... Prevent the grading filters from showing assignments that need grading/have been submitted Will not accurately reflect time remaining (things will appear late when they are, in fact not late at all.) It will not... [...]
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Hidden Content If you’re working on an item that’s a Work-in-Progress you don’t have to have it where students can see it and potentially get confused or worried about the content. You can hide content so you can work on it or explore your options quietly! You can also restrict access to activities (and sections) [...]
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Find Whole Categories of a Course Type This will be most relevant to Administrative Assistants, Instructional Leads or those who have been assigned to help transfer content for one or more classes in a department. Note: Assumes you are enrolled in a course or category that contains courses, most often as a Manager, Instructor, or [...]
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Labels are a type of resource in Moodle that allows us to place content directly on the front course page, as opposed to creating a link to takes users to another view. Labels can be used to help us format the course page, emphasize certain pieces of information, and (embed information not otherwise available in [...]
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Courses can be formatted so sections are categorized by week, topic or folder in Moodle. What does this mean? Courses formatted as topics or weeks can now have content hidden and only made view-able one week at a time. without having to transition entirely to Folder format. This may help keep scrolling to a minimum [...]
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Guest Access to a course may be enabled to allow students who... are logged in to be redirected with a link to a course they are not enrolled in where they can view read-only content do not necessarily have a Clackamas account. These individuals will need to first login on our bypass Login page Click Login [...]
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Add a Manual Grade Item A manual grade item would be the most ideal method for these, you can add a manual grade item (just one for everyone- you don't need one for each group). You can set a manual grade item by Go to the course you wish to add a manual item to [...]
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Setup a Q&A Forum A Q&A Forum ensures that students must make a post before they can see the responses of their peers. However, some setup is required for this forum each term. Create a Q&A Forum: Add a new Forum activity - OR - Edit the settings of an existing Forum or Open Forum [...]
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If your course does not use the default layout you can see other possible course layouts and find the one that does apply to your course here: Navigating Moodle: Course Layouts The Default layout of courses is all content listed on a single page. This is ideal for courses that only have a little content and ease [...]
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If your course does not use Single Section per Page layout you can see other possible course layouts and find the one that does apply to your course here: Navigating Moodle: Course Layouts Single Section per Page is a layout option new for Winter 2016. It's built to limit having to scroll through content to get to where [...]
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