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. [...]
Continue Reading
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, [...]
Continue Reading
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. [...]
Continue Reading
In the Moodle gradebook you can modify how you would like grades displayed. You can choose to show the actual score (real), a percentage, a letter grade, or a combination. The current default display for the gradebook is Real (Percentage), which displays the actual total with the percentage in parentheses. Default Grade Display TypeIndividual Grade [...]
Continue Reading
You may find that student grades appear lower than expected if grade items that are hidden or have not been completed are being used to calculate the course grade. If you are finding this to be the case you can follow these steps to fix this issue. NOTE: Changing this setting will also cause grade [...]
Continue Reading
These steps will help you design your gradebook using the Points 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. Click the Actions (...) [...]
Continue Reading
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. Select the Settings option on the Secondary Navigation. Expand the Appearance section. Change Show gradebook to students [...]
Continue Reading
Follow these instructions to export a question bank to a file that you can import into a course in Moodle or another LMS. 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 menu, select the Export option. From within [...]
Continue Reading
Before importing questions into Moodle, we strongly suggest you create a Category in the question bank for each chapter or topic so later you can easily find and select questions. 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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
Ratings allows you to grade the posts as you read them in the forum. To use this grade method you need to first create a Forum with Ratings. Click the Forum link. Enter the Discussion you want to grade. NOTE: You do not need to enter the discussion for the forum type A single simple discussion [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
Submissions left in Draft (not submitted) status can cause problems for both instructors and students. Here are some of the issues that can arise and how to resolve them. Draft submissions will... Prevent the Submitted/Require grading filter from accurately displaying assignments. Prevent the system from accurately reflecting whether a submission was completed on time. Draft submissions [...]
Continue Reading
There are two processes that you can use to grade Moodle assignments in bulk offline. You can use these processes together or separately depending on what you are trying to accomplish. You can also grade the assignment activity within Moodle. Worksheet Scores/FeedbackAnnotating FilesWorksheet Scores/Feedback You can use this process to download a CSV file in [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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: [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading